John Savage

Professor of Computer Science
Box 1910, Computer Science Department
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
401-863-7642 (voice)
401-863-7657 (fax)
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. Center for Information Technology, Room 503
Send me email at: jes@cs.brown.edu

Biographical Sketch

Professor Savage earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1965 specializing in coding and information theory. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1965 and the faculty of the Division of Engineering at Brown in 1967. In 1979 he co-founded the Department of Computer Science and served as its second chair from 1985 to 1991. By the early 1970s his research interests changed to theoretical computer science. His current research focus is computational nanotechnology. He is a Fellow of AAAS and ACM, a Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is a recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Research Award.

Professor Savage has been heavily involved in departmental, faculty and university affairs. His recent assignments include Chair of the Faculty (2001-2002), Chair of the Task Force on Faculty Governance (2002-2003) that revised the faculty committee structure in one year, member of the Academic Priorities Committee (2002-2003), Chair of the Search Committee for the Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations (2003-2004), and President of the Faculty Club Board of Managers (1998-2001).

His professional service has included service on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences and as a member of the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee for the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from 1991-2002.

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