John E. Savage

John Edmund Savage is an American computer scientist and An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Brown University. At his retirement in 2019, Savage was one of the longest-serving faculty members in Brown's history.[1]

Savage earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, under the supervision of Irwin M. Jacobs.[2] After leaving MIT, he worked briefly for Bell Laboratories before joining the Brown faculty in 1967.[1] He is the author of the book Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing (Addison-Wesley, 1998).[3] In 1979 he and Andries Van Dam co-founded Brown's Computer Science program. Savage served as the department's second chair from 1985 to 1991.[4]

Savage was named an ACM Fellow for "fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science, information theory, and VLSI design, analysis and synthesis".[5] He is a life fellow of the IEEE,[6] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7] He was appointed as An Wang professor in 2011.[8]

References

  1. ^ a b Faculty profile, Brown University Computer Science Dept., retrieved 2012-03-02.
  2. ^ John Edmund Savage at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  3. ^ Available online under a Creative Commons license as of 2008.
  4. ^ "John Savage's Home Page". cs.brown.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  5. ^ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2012-03-02.
  6. ^ IEEE Computer Society Fellows Archived 2012-02-19 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2012-03-02.
  7. ^ List of AAAS fellows Archived 2014-01-15 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2012-03-02.
  8. ^ John Savage Honored with Named Professorship, Brown University Computer Science Dept., May 28, 2011, retrieved 2012-03-02.