Cal Newport

Cal Newport (born 1982) is an American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University. Cal Newport was born June 23, 1982. 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 2009-2011. His grandfather, John Newport, was a Baptist minister and theologian; his father, Frank Newport, is a sociologist and senior executive at Gallup. Cal Newport, his father, and his grandfather hold PhDs In 2011, Newport joined Georgetown University as an assistant professor of computer science, and was granted tenure in 2017. 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 six books.