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Calvin C. Newport is an American nonfiction author and full time professor of computer science at Georgetown University. He is known for his writings about attention management in the digital age.
Newport grew up in Pennington, New Jersey. His grandfather, John Newport, was a Baptist minister and theologian.
Calvin graduated from Hopewell Valley Central High School in 2000. He completed his undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College in 2004 and received a Ph.D. in computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 under Nancy Lynch. He was a post-doctoral associate in the MIT computer science department from 2009 to 2011.
Newport joined Georgetown University as an assistant professor of computer science in 2011, was granted tenure in 2017, and was promoted to full professorship in 2024. His work focuses on distributed algorithms in challenging networking scenarios and incorporates the study of communications systems in nature. Newport is currently Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University and the author of eight books.
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