Life in the Cyber Age The Modern Scholar Podcast

Derek Reveron is Chair and Professor of National Security Affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He specializes in strategy development, non-state security challenges, intelligence, and U.S. defense policy. He has authored or edited fourteen books. Dr. Reveron is a faculty affiliate at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University where he co-teaches a course on contemporary national security challenges at the Kennedy School of Government. The views expressed by Dr. Reveron are his alone and do not necessarily represent the positions of the Naval War College, the U.S. Navy, or the Department of Defense.

John E. Savage is the An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Brown University. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Computing Machinery, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Guggenheim Fellow. He served as a Jefferson Science Fellow in the U.S. State Department, a Fellow at the EastWest Institute, and a member of the Rhode Island Cybersecurity Commission. Dr. Savage has published over one hundred research articles, two books on theoretical computer science, co-authored a book on computer literacy, and co-edited a book on Very Large Scale Integration and parallel systems. He has given more than one hundred and eighty-five invited presentations worldwide.

Together Dr. Reveron and Dr. Savage are the co-authors of Security in the Cyber Age: An Introduction to Policy and Technology which was recently released from Cambridge University Press, and is the subject of our conversation today.