John Edmund Savage is an American

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

and An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

. At his retirement in 2019, Savage was one of the longest-serving faculty members in Brown's history. Faculty profile
Brown University Computer Science Dept., retrieved 2012-03-02. Savage earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the

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in 1965, under the supervision of

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. After leaving MIT, he worked briefly for

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before joining the Brown faculty in 1967. He is the author of the book ''Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing'' (Addison-Wesley, 1998). In 1979 he and

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co-founded Brown's Computer Science program. Savage served as the department's second chair from 1985 to 1991. Savage was named an

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for "fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science, information theory, and VLSI design, analysis and synthesis". He is a life fellow of the

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, and a fellow of the

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. He was appointed as An Wang professor in 2011.John Savage Honored with Named Professorship
Brown University Computer Science Dept., May 28, 2011, retrieved 2012-03-02.

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