John E. Savage

John Edmund Savage is an American computer scientist and An Wang Professor of Computer Science at Brown University.[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]

Savage was named an ACM Fellow for "fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science, information theory, and VLSI design, analysis and synthesis".[4] He is a life fellow of the IEEE,[5] and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[6] He was appointed as An Wang professor in 2011.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 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. ↑ ACM Fellow award citation, retrieved 2012-03-02.
  5. ↑ IEEE Computer Society Fellows, retrieved 2012-03-02.
  6. ↑ List of AAAS fellows, retrieved 2012-03-02.
  7. ↑ John Savage Honored with Named Professorship, Brown University Computer Science Dept., May 28, 2011, retrieved 2012-03-02.
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