(Feb. 14, 2016) – The Boston Global Forum (BGF) is pleased to introduce the third in series of online dialogues to build the BGF-G7 Summit Initiative. This session will be with Professor John Savage, An Wang Professor of Computer Science at 7:00 PM (Boston time), Feb.22 at Brown University.
Professor Savage 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 and Professorial Fellow of the East West Institute. He also served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. State Department during the 2009-2010 academic year. His current research interests are cyber-security technology and policy, reliable computation with unreliable components, computational nanotechnology, efficient cache management on multi-core chips, and I/O complexity. Professor John Savage is also a member of The Boston Global Forum – G7 Summit Committee
The 60-minute event will focus on “Strategies for Combating Cyber-Terrorism” and be moderated by former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, chairman of the Boston Global Forum.
Discussants are encouraged to send questions to [email protected]. Members of the Boston Global Forum’s Special Editorial Board will gather your insights and send them to the speaker.
The talk will be live-streamed at www.bostonglobalforum.org.
About John Savage
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.
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