Current Endeavors

MIT

Research, Department of Economics

Yale University

Fellow, Silliman College

Hamilton Thorne

Member of Scientific Advisory Board. Technologies for research in regenerative medicine

Palm Beach Medical College

Professor, Chief Science Advisor.

Cloud Industries

Co-Chairman. Executive programs, workshops, and applications using Cloud technologies.

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Academic Career

MIT

Affiliate, Department of Economics

2009-2010

Permanent Tenure Awarded (MIT ID # 900005071)

1977

Certificate of Recognition, 31 Years of Service

1998

Quarter Century Club Lifetime Membership Award

1992

Adjunct professor (Ret.).

1997-2010

Adjunct Professor of Management, Sloan School

1989-1997

Associate Professor of Management, Sloan School (tenured)

1973-1989

Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering

1970-1972

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering

1966-1970

Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Electrical Engineering

1966-1968

Founding Member, Sloan School Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

1974-1983

Director, Decision Support Group, Energy Laboratory (Description) (Picture)

1978

Member, Project MAC, Development Team of Multix, predecessor to UNIX,

1967-1972

Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid Committee

1979-1984

Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Advisor

1973-1976

Freshman Advisor, MIT

1970-1975

Graduate Counselor, MIT

1970-1973

Lecturer, Lowell Institute (Community Institute of MIT)

1968-1977

Trustee, Community Service Fund

1972-1974

Course 6A - Graduate Councilor and Adviser

1970-1973

Sloan Fellows Program, Lecturer

1975-1982

Sloan Senior Executive Program, Lecturer

1974-1983

Sloan Urban Executive Program, Lecturer 1974

Electrical Engineering courses taught: 6.251, 6.802, 6.253, 6.542, 6.273, 6.53S, 6.857 & 6.79, 6.47

1968-1971

Graduate Level Management courses taught: 15.571, 15.565, 15.568, 15.564, 15.561

1974-1988

Theses supervised: 54

1968-1988

Executive committee: Principal Investigator Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)

1977-1980

Management Information Science Steering Committee, Sloan School

1977-1978

Community Catalyst Program

1970-1980

Industrial Liaison Program - Faculty Representative

1970-1987

Intramural Basketball

1970-2000

Nautical Association (Crew)

1970-2010

Student Teaching Award

1970, 1971, 1972

David Schultz Award for Excellence in Teaching

1969

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Palm Beach Medical College

Clinical Professor of Technology

2010

Chief Science Advisor

2010

Benefactor-Endowed Award for Oustanding Student

2010

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Yale

Fellow of Silliman College (Asscociate) 1990, 2002, 2009

1990-2012

Yale School of Organization and Management Business and IT Committee

1996

Yale Engineering Association

1968-2010

Research Assistant, Yale Medical School

1964-1967

Teaching Assistant, Enginering and Applied Sciences

1964-1967

Lecturer, Fall Computer Science Series 1972
John J. Donovan Family Scholorship Fund 1995, 2001

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Tufts

Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Technology in Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine 1975, 1979, 1982

1973-1983

Director and Board Member, Tufts New England Center for Birth Defects ( picture Dr. Sydney Gellis M. D. head of department of pediatrics Tufts Medical School ) img 600 - 3402 jpg

1978

Member, Scientific Staff (Pediatrics), Tufts New England Medical Center

1974

Tufts School of Medicine, Award for research into causes of Birth Defects

1975

Tufts School of Medicine, Award for Valued Member of the Faculty

1974, 1979

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  Other Academic Affiliations (partial list)

Texas Tech University, Professor, Engineering Analysis and Design (ID 017327915)

1969-1970

Texas Tech University, Adjunct Professor, Engineering Analysis and Design 1970-1971
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Lecturer, Strategic Computing 1984

Georgetown University Medical Center, Member of the Executive Advisory Board

1980-1987

University of Rhode Island, Visiting Professor, taught CS 512 Adv Prog Sys

1970, 1971, 1979

Oxford University, Lecturer

1971

Cambridge University, Lecturer

1971

University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Lecturer, "Formal Systems"

1967
University of Paris, Sarbonne, VIsiting Lecturer, "Operating Systems" Summer
1970-1971
University of Bergen, Norway, Visiting Lecturer, "Multiplaxed Information Systems"
1968
Stanford University, Lecturer, "Canonic Systems and Prog Lang"
1967
University of Trondheim, Norway, Visitng Lecturer, "Design of Time Sharing Systems", Summer
1968
University of Oslo, Norway, Lecturer, "Simmulation Languages"
1975
University of Edinbourgh, UK, Lecturer, "A Graphical Facilitity for Int. Sim. Lang"
1967
University of Pittsburgh, Visiting Professor, Evaluation Doctorate Committee
1973, 1975
University of Economics, Prague, Visiting Scholar 1996
ACM National Lectureship - Georgia Tech, U of Penn, American University, Iowa, Missouri, New York College 1970-1971

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Education

University of Economics, Prague, Honorary Doctorate of Economics (first since communist takeover of country).
First Doctorate in Economics since the Communist take-over of Czechoslovakia

1996

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Post Doctorate Fellow

1966-1968

Yale University, Ph.D. (Highest Honors), Thesis Committee: Dr. Seligson, MD. School of Medicine, Prof. Wogrin, D.Eng, School of Engineering, Language exams German, French

1967

Yale University, Master of Science (Honors)

1965

Yale University, Master of Engineering (Honors)

1964

Tufts College, BS Electrical Engineering (Dean's List)

1963

Air Force, ROTC Second Lieutenant, in uniform

1960-1963

English High School (National Honor Society) 1959
St. John's Prep - Mathematics Scholor 1958
   

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Role in Technology Shifts

Technological Revolution

Academic Contribution

Businesses Founded (partial list)

Cloud (2010)

Research on applications of security and robustness vulnerabilities of the Cloud.

Publication: "Recipe for Saving America".

Publication: Systems, Methods and Devices for Providing Situational Awareness, Mitigation, Risk Analysis of Assets, Applications and Infrastructure in the Internet and Cloud.

Cloud Industries - a pioneer of enterprise applications migration to the Cloud, while adding business and technology functionality and applicatrions in health care.
Terrorism / Security (after 9/11)

Correlation engine.

Patent: Apparatus, Methods, and Systems for Intelligent Security and Safety.

Course taught: Executive programs for the Navy, DoD, Air Force, Army.

CellExchange/Cambridge Technology Enterprises (CTE) - developed Joint Protection Enterprise Network (JPEN) for DOD Security.
Internet (circa 1990's)

Book: The Second Industrial Revolution: Business Strategy and Internet Technology.

Earlier fundamental research on the DARPA NET (predecessor to the internet) at MIT's Project MAC.

Course taught: Strategic Computing series of lectures at Yale, Harvard.

Business@Web (later One Wave) - pioneered internet based business objects.

C-bridge - a pioneer of enterprise solutions using the Internet.
Client Server (circa 1990's)

Book: Crisis in Technology.

Course taught: Executive courses provided by CTG/CEE (25,000 executives).

International Integration Inc. (i-Cube) - a pioneer of migration from mainframe to client-server

Open Systems (circa 1990's)

3-tiered architecture

Book: Business Re-engineering with Technology.

Course taught: 15.568.

Open Environment Corporation (OEC) - pioneer of tools for 3-tierd open standards DCE-based applications

UNIX (circa 1980's)

Surround (tm)

Book: Operating Systems.

Course taught: 15.565, 6.802.

Research at MIT's Project MAC on MULTIX, predecessor of UNIX.

Cambridge Technology Group (CTG) - trained 10,000 executives in the use of UNIX for business applications.

Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP) - a pioneer of systems integration based on UNIX.
Relational Database (circa 1970's)

Book: Systems Programming.

Course taught: 6.251, 15.564.

Mitrol - a pioneer of relational database for industrial strength inventory applications.

Animation (circa 1969)

Interactive Education

Awarded Best Educational Software: Knoware

Concentric Vision- a pioneer of click-able videos

Knoware - a pioneer of game software for learning.

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Corporate Affiliations

Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP)

1990-2000
Founder, Chairman (until 1992).
Founded as a Division of Cambridge Technology Group in 1985. Pioneer of fixed-price, fixed-time, UNIX-based business systems development. Became separate company in 1990 with 250 employees serving Fortune 500 customers. IPO in 1991. Merged with Novell (NASDAQ: NOVL), 6000+ employees.

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Cambridge Executive Enterprises (CEE)

1991-2007

Founder, Chairman

Company provided executive seminars, and incubation of new ventures. Professor Donovan of MIT, Professor Badaracco of Harvard, Professor Porter of Harvard, and Sundar Subramaniam were the major lecturers. Focus was on business and technology. Attendance were 25,000 executives from global 2000 organizations conducted in 40 countries. Responsible for 10 company spin-offs with Sundar Subramaniam, including IBCC, Business@Web, Concentric Vision, ICE, C-Bridge, Marathon, Brainstorm.

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Integration International Inc. (I-Cube)

1996-2000
Lecturer.

Company performed Marketing through Executive Seminars, lectured by Professor Donovan.

Pioneer of process for migration of mainframe applications to client-server environments. Migration drastically reduced the capital and maintenance costs of systems development. IPO in 1998. Merged with Razorfish (now a subsidiary of Microsoft, NASDAQ: MSFT).

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Open Environment Corporation (OEC)

1992-1996
Co-founder, Chairman.
Company performed Marketing through Executive Seminars. Pioneer of three-tier software architecture. OEC's architecture became the development environment for many Fortune 1000 companies. IPO in 1993. Merged with Borland (NASDAQ:BORL).

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Cambridge Samsung Partners (CSP)

1997-2000
Co-founder, President
Beginning in 1994, Cambridge Technology Group delivered Executive Seminars and Workshops for Samsung to develop new strategy and products. A CSP Joint Venture was formalized in 1997. The company explored new technologies and their business potential. Purchased by Samsung (SEO: 005930).

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Cambridge Technology Group/KPMG Partnership

1996-1999
Co-founder.
Company was founded as a systems development division of KPMG in Europe, based in the Netherlands. Purchased by KPMG.

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Cambridge Technology Group

1980-1991
Founder, Chairman.
The organization developed and delivered Executive Seminars in 35 countries to 18,000 Fortune 4000 Executives. Series sponsors included Hewlett Packard, Oracle, SAP, IBM, Sun, Citigroup, ATT, Informix, and NCR. Pioneered and conducted workshops for rapid development of prototypes and business cases for strategic applications. Responsible for several spin-offs, including OEC.

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Internet Business Capital Corporation

1999-2006

Co-founder.

Investment partners: Aegon, Ray Lane, Managing Director of Kleiner Perkins, and Sundar Subramaniam. The Company is an incubator for technology companies. Present portfolio includes Knome, Vox Holdings, and MTVP Corporation.

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Concentric Vision

1999-2001
Co-founder.

Pioneered the concept of clickable videos. Purchased by Advent Group.

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Integrated Computing Engine (ICE)

1994-2000
Co-founder.

Company patented configuration of software and hardware, partnered with MIT and created high-power desktop computers used in graphics and animated movie production. Merged with Media100 (OTC:MDEA). Hardware is used today in computer animation films.

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C-Bridge Internet Solutions

1996-2000
Co-founder.
Was founded as a division of Cambridge Executive Enterprises in 1995 and became incorporated in 1996. Pioneered the development of large-scale enterprise applications on the internet. IPO in 1999. Merged with Excelon (now part of Progress Software, NASDAQ: PRGS).

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Cambridge Technology Group/IBIRSIS

1996-1999
Co-founder.
The company was founded as a systems development division of IBIRSIS in South America, based in Argentina. Purchased by IBIRSIS.

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One Wave (Formerly Business@Web)

1993-1998
Co-founder, Chairman.
Developed object oriented programming tools for the internet. IPO in 1995. Merged with Primix.

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Cambridge Institute Reports

1989-1992
Co-founder and Contributing Editor.
Company produced quarterly industry reports to CIOs.

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Lloyd's of London

1983-2010
Underwriting Member

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CellExchange

2000-2003
Chairman Emeritus and Coach.
The Company developed applications for cell phones, and implemented the JPEN defense security system. Purchased by Cambridge Technology Enterprises (2004)

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Cambridge Technology Funds

1989-1992

Co-founder and Chairman

Company developed computer models for trading on the stock exchange.

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Advest

1990-1992
Co-founder.
Company formed in 1990 as a Joint Venture between Cambridge Technology Group and Westinghouse. Developed an interactive system to facilitate effective use, sales, and reporting of advertisement in radio and television. Became a division of Westinghouse.

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Cambridge Institute for Information System

1983-1985
Co-founder, Chairman, President.
Company delivered Executive Seminars and Workshop Facilitations. Worked in conjunction with AT&T to develop Executive Seminars and Technical Training Workshops to re-invent AT&T in the telecommunications and computer systems environment.

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Institue for Medical Information Services

1978-1983
Founder, Chairman, President.
Company delivered services to the health-care community.

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Financial Publishing Co.

1972-1980
Member of Board of Directors
The company published reports on software companies.

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Mitrol

1971-1973
Co-founder, Chairman
Company developed one of the first interactive inventory management systems. Purchased by General Electric (NYSE:GE).

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Knoware

1971-1973
Founder, President.
Company developed first on-line interactive animated games for teaching computer applications. Won an award for "Best Educational Software." The concepts are incorporated in many educational programs today.

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International Computation (Intercomp)

1968-1971
Founder, Chairman, President.
Company commercialized a clinical laboratory on-line system based on Professor Donovan's PhD dissertation. Pioneered the development of hardware devices to virtualize existing device interfaces, e.g. IBM 1130. Company was purchased by Logicon (now part of Northrop Grumman, NYSE: NOC).

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IBM Corporation

1970
Systems Systems Analyst.
Worked with Mr. Williams, President on pricing strategy. A developer of simulation language GPSS 360

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Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation

1967
Summer Intern.
Worked on instruments for helicopter.

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General Electric

1960
Summer Intern.
Worked on training operators to assemble instruments

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City of Lynn, Engineering Department

1961
Summer Intern.
Surveyed city property.

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Happy Valley Golf Course

1955-1959

Caddy.

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Government and Non-profit Advising

Navy, Concept Definition in Fleet & Manpower Readiness

2002-2008

Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Field Force Protection

2001-2005

Air Force, Adviser Strategic Transformation of Information Technology

2001-2002

Advised Chairman and Executive Board of Samsung on internet strategy

2000-2006

Adviser to President Ford and New England Governors on economic issues in energy

1975-1976

Adviser to President Bush on Information Technology

1992

Adviser to President Reagan on DARPA Research Technology

1987-1989

White House and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Task Force of training and retraining in business and labor. 1982

Adviser to President Carter on US/USSR Technology

1980-1981

Member, National Academy of Sciences Advisory Committee, USSR/US Technology

1980

Area Co-Director of Management and Computers, AFIPS National Conference

1975

Co-Chairman, Networks of Computers Conference, Sponsored by National Security Agency

1972

Chairman, Technical Program, Association of Computing Machinery

1972

Member, University Space Research Association Advisory Committee

1971

Member, Honeywell Research Advisory Board

1970

Submarine Fleet Navy Underwater Sound-Lab Researcher

1969-1975

Worked with Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the House, on passing Birth Defects Legislature

1977-1978

National Lecturer for ACM (Association for Computing Machines) 1971-1972
Member, Computer Center Visiting Committee, Steven's Institute of Technology 1971

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Community Involvement

Constructed ball fields, soccer fields, field hockey fields, and donated for use to
Hamilton Recreation Department

2004-2010

Massachusetts coalition for homeless. Developed program for furniture bank.

2008-2010

Essex County Trail Association land conservation award

2009

Donated to town of Pomfret, VT land for use for Fire Stations

2008

Worked with Senator Ted Kennedy on No Child Left Behind program in Massachusetts.

2002

Preserved 1000 acres of open land for agricultural and recreation use in Hamilton, Essex, Ipswich,
Manchester by the Sea, Massachusetts, Promfret, Vermont.

1974-2010

Donated and Installed Computers in Schools in Lynn, Massachusetts.

1991-1994

Member of the Visitors' Committee, Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

1987-1995

Lecturer, Lowell Institute, program for underprivileged (community institute within MIT)

1968-1977

Scholarships at Yale University for students from Hamilton, Manchester and Ipswich
2001
Boston University scholarship for students from Lynn
2000
Scholarships at Yale University, general trust 1995

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Publications

Books

  1. Donovan, John J., "The World is Not Flat", work in progress (2010).
  2. Donovan, John J., "The Second Industrial Revolution: Business Strategy and Internet Technology," (216p) Prentice Hall, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1998..
  3. Donovan, John J., "Business Reengineering with Information Technology," (189p) Prentice Hall, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000.
    § Japanese edition published by Hewlett Packard, 1995
    § Korean edition published by Hewlett Packard, 1996
  4. Donovan, John J., "The Second Industrial Revolution: Re-inventing your business on the web," (234p), Prentice Hall, 1997
    § Japanese edition, Published by Prentice Hall Japan, 1997
  5. Donovan, John J. and Madnick, S.E.,"Information Systems - database, telecommunications, transaction manager, and performance evaluation", Sloan School of Management, used in course 15.565, MIT 1982
  6. Donovan, John J. and Madnick, S.E., "Teacher Manual - information systems, MIT 1982
  7. Madnick, S.E., and John J. Donovan, "Operating Systems," McGraw-Hill, 1974, 10 printings.
    § Systemy Operacujne, Polish edition, Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Nankowe, Warszawa, Poland, 1984
    § Operatní Systémy, Czechoslovakian edition, SNTL Nakladatelstvi Technicke Leteratury, 1981
    § Operating Systems, International Student edition, McGraw-Hill Kogakusha, Ltd., 1978.
    § Оперативные системы, Russian edition, McGraw-Hill, 1978.
    § Operating Systems, Japanese edition, Nippon Computer Kyokai, 1976.
  8. Donovan, John J., "Systems Programming," McGraw-Hill, 1972, 16 printings.
    § Systémové Programovanie, Slovakian edition, V. Jankovic, 1979
    § Programacion de Sistemas, Spanish edition, Libreria El Ateneo, S.A., 1977
    § Rendszer-programozás, Hungarian edition, Muszaki Konyrkiado, 1977
    § Systems Programming, Japanese edition, Nippon Computer Kyokai, 1974
  9. Donovan, John J., "Software Projects: Pedagogical Aids for Software Education and Research," McGraw-Hill, 1977.
  10. Donovan, John J., "Introduction to Computers and Programming", used in course 6.47, 15.564, MIT 1975
  11. Donovan, John J.,"Introduction to Computers and Programming - Teacher's Manual", MIT 1975
  12. Donovan, John J., and S.E. Madnick, "Instructor's Manual to Accompany Operating Systems," McGraw-Hill, 1974.
  13. Donovan, John J., "Instructor's Manual - Systems Programming," McGraw-Hill, 1972.

Books distributed by affiliate institutions

  1. Donovan, John, J., "Business Reengineering with Technology: An Implementation Guide," (184p) Cambridge Technology Group, 1993.
  2. Donovan, John J., "Business and Technology: A Paradigm Shift," Cambridge Technology Group, (176p) 1993.
    § Japanese edition (210p), 1993
  3. Donovan, John J., "Opportunities for Competitive Advantage," Cambridge Technology Group, 1991.
  4. Donovan, John J., "Opportunities in Technology. Strategic Weapons and Tactics for Executives", (147p) Cambridge Technology Group, 1989, 1990, 1991
  5. Donovan, John J., "Crisis in Technology - The Solution: Strategic Weapons and Tactics for Executives," (206p) Cambridge Technology Group, 1990.

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Donovan, John J. and all, "Recipe for Saving America", (March 2010)
  2. Donovan, John J., "Earning the Right," HP: The IT Journal, (Fall 1998)
  3. Donovan, John J., "Amazing Cure," Solutions, Vol. 12 No. 2, Unisys (1997)
  4. Donovan, John J., "Centralized IS and the CIO's Changing Role," Harvard Business Review, (September 1988).
  5. Donovan, John J., "Opportunities and Challenges for the Key Executive," Circuits and Devices, (March 1988).
  6. Donovan, John, J. "Software Cut to Fit," UNIX Review, (December 1987).
  7. Donovan, John J., "Fast Answers to Tough Energy Questions", Scientific American, February (1978)
  8. Donovan, John, J. and W. Fisher, "Factors Affecting Residential Heating Energy Consumption," The New England Journal of Business and Economics, Vol. 4, No. 1, (Fall, 1977).
  9. Donovan, John J., and Henry Jacoby, "Virtual Machine Communication for the Implementation of Decision Support Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, (Fall 1977).
  10. Donovan, John J., "A Note on Performance of VM/370 in the Integration of Models and Databases," The British Computer Journal, (November 1977).
  11. Donovan, John J. and S.E. Madnick, "Institutional and Ad Hoc DSS and their effective us", (Database V. 8, No. 3, Winter, 1977)
  12. Donovan, John J. "Database System Approach to Management Decision Support," ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, (December 1976).
  13. Donovan, John J. and S.E. Madnick, "Virtual Machines: Advantages in Security, Integrity and in Decision Support Systems," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, (August 1976).
  14. Donovan, John J., "Tools and Philosophy for Teaching Software," Communications of the ACM, (August 1976).
  15. Donovan, John J. and S.E. Madnick, "Hierarchical Approach to Computer Systems Integrity," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, (May 1975).
  16. Donovan, John J., "Tools and Philosophy for Software Engineering", Communications of the ACM (1974).

Conference Proceedings

  1. Donovan, John J., "Ambidextrous Business Management", College of Health Care, Keynote (Fall 2005)
  2. Donovan, John J., "Business and Client Server," National Conference, Digital Equipment Corporation, Keynote (1995)
  3. Donovan, John J., "Computer Literacy," a white paper presented at CISR Conference, (June 1983).
  4. Donovan, John J., "Optional Structuring in a Fully Inverted Hierarchical Data Structure," CISR Report (March 1980)
  5. Donovan, John J., "An Experimental VM/370 Based Information System," Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, with Gutentag, Fessel and Greenberg, Vol. 1, No. 1, (September 1975).
  6. Donovan, John J., "An Application of a Generalized Management Information System to Energy Policy and Decision Making - The User's View," Proceedings of the 1975 AFIPS National Computer Conference, vol.44, (May 1975).
  7. Donovan, John J. and Jacoby, D., "GMIS: An Experiment System for Data Management and Analysis," Energy Laboratory Working Paper (SLOAN WP 811-75) (September 1975)
  8. Donovan, John J. and Keeting, W.R., "Text of Governor's Presentation," Energy Laboratory Working Paper, NEEMIS Project (REPORT CISR-18)(December 1975). Presented to the six New England Governors.
  9. Donovan, John J., "Management Information Systems for Energy Distribution", AFIPS National Computer Conference '74, Chicago, (May, 1974)
  10. Donovan, John J., "Present and Future Research in Operating Systems", invited speaker, Fifth Annual Data Processing Seminar, U.S. Navy, Neport, Rhode Island, (May, 1973)
  11. Donovan, John J., "New England Energy Information Systems", National Energy Conference, Purdue University, (October, 1974)
  12. Donovan, John J. and S.E. Madnick, "An Approach to Information Systems Integrity and Security in a Shared Facility," Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Virtual Computer Systems, Harvard University, (March 1973).
  13. Donovan, John J., "Development of Computer - Based Sensor Systems," Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, (January 1970).
  14. Donovan, John J., "Software Engineering - An Experiment and a Report," World Conference on Computer Education, R. Scheepmaker and K. Zinn eds., Distributed by Science Associates/International, Inc., New York, (1970).
  15. Donovan, John J., "A Program for the Underprivileged and Overprivileged of the Boston Community," Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference, (May 1969).
  16. Donovan, John J., "Data Structures and Storage Classes of PL/I," with Graham, Proceedings on Data Fair, Manchester, U.K., (1969).
  17. Donovan, John J., "Data Structures," Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, January, (1969).
  18. Donovan, John J., "A Comparison of Operating Systems", Honeywell's PSD Second Annual Software Symposium (April 1969)
  19. Donovan, John J., "Compiler Techniques", ACM Symposium on Effective Us of Programming Languages, Seventh Annual Bay Area Conference, San Francisco (April 1968)
  20. Donovan, John J., Joseph Alsop and T. Jones, "A Graphical Facility for an Interactive Simulation System," Proceedings of IFIPS Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, (1968).
  21. Donovan, John J., "A Formal System for the Specification of the Syntax and Translation of Computer Languages," Proceedings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference, (November 1967).
  22. Donovan, John J., "Flexible Information Systems for Energy Management", National Energy Conference, Purdue University, October, 1974.
  23. Donovan, John J., "Energy and New England", New England Conference of Business and Finance, University of New Hampshire, October 1974.
  24. Donovan, John J., "Software Engineering - an Experiment and Report", Proceedings of IFIPS World Conference on Education, Distributed by Science Associates, New York, 1972.
  25. Donovan, John J., "An Approach to Information System Privacy and Security in Shared Facility", ACM Workshop on Virtual Computer Systems, Harvard University, March 1973.
  26. Donovan, John J., "Development of Computer-Based Sensor System", Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, January 1970.
  27. Donovan, John J., "A Program for the Underprivileged and Overprivileged of the Boston Community", Proceedings of the Spring Joint Computer Conference, May 1969.
  28. Donovan, John J., "Data Structure and Storage Classes of PL/I", Proceedings of Data Fair 1969, Manchester, England.
  29. Donovan, John J., "Data Structures", Proceedings of Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, January 1969.
  30. Donovan, John J., "A Graphical Facility for an Interactive Simulations System", Proceedings of IFIPS Congress 1968, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Publications and Interviews

  1. Donovan, John J. et al. "Intelligent Security and Safety," White Paper, SecureNet Intelligent Systems (May 9, 2007)
  2. Donovan, John J., "Strategic Computing and Communication Opportunities," SCCI Technical Report No. 81 (1996).
  3. Donovan, John J., "Technical Consortium," SCCI Technical Report No. 82 (1995).
  4. Donovan, John J., "SAP Savvy," Interview, Computerworld, (July 1995)
  5. Donovan, John J., "IT Industry Must Transform itself to Avoid Redundancy," Interview, Business Day, (November 1995)
  6. Donovan, John J., "John Donovan's Mandate for Change," Unisphere, (June 1990).
  7. Donovan, John J., "Three-tiered Client-Server Systems Gain as Enterprise-Wide Solution," Interview, Investor's Business Daily, (October 1994).
  8. Donovan, John J., "Reengineering the Workplace," Computerworld, (October 1994).
  9. Donovan, John J., "The Vision Thing," Interview, CIO Magazine, (September 1994).
  10. Donovan, John J., "Decentralized IS and CIO's Changing Role," Cambridge Institute Report, Technical Report No. 30 (1994).
  11. Donovan, John J., "A Special Program for Key Executives Making Information System Decisions," Cambridge Institute Technical Report, Report No. 30 (1994).
  12. Donovan, John J., "Adding Value to Product, Services' Strategy for '90s," Interview, Australian Times, (September 1993)
  13. Donovan, John J., "Open Systems is Necessary for Strategic Computing," NCR Pacific, Vol. 2, No. 1, (1990).
  14. Donovan, John J., "The Impact of Strategic Computing on Productivity," NCR Perspective, Vol.4, No.1, (1990)
  15. Donovan, John J., "Opportunities and Challenges for the Key Executives", Circuits and Devices (March 1988)
  16. Donovan, John J., "Software Cut to Fit", Unix Review (December 1987)
  17. Donovan, John J., "Prototyping and Connecting Tools", Strategic Computing and Communications, Inc., Technical Report No. 80
  18. Donovan, John J., "A Special Program for Key Executives Making Information System Decision", Cambridge Institute Technical Report, Report No. 30
  19. Donovan, John J., "Prototyping and Connectivity Tools," Strategic Computing and Communications, Inc., Technical Report No. 80 (1980).
  20. Donovan, John J., "Optional Structuring in a Fully Inverted Hierarchical Data Structure," CISR Report, (March 1980).
  21. Donovan, John J., S.E. Madnick, C. Lam, and H. Abdel-Harnid, "Use of Virtual Machines in the Development of Decision Support Systems," RADC Final Technical Report, (May 1979).
  22. Donovan, John J., Madnick S., Lam, and Abdel-Hamid, "Use of Virtual Machines in the Development of Decision Support Systems," RADC Final Technical Report (May 1979)
  23. Donovan, John J., "Truth and Fiction in Energy," Editorial, The Boston Globe, (December 7, 1978)
  24. Donovan, John J., "Computer Diagnosis of Birth Defects," Natural Science and Biomedicine Science News, Vol. 111, January 8, 1977).
  25. Donovan, John J., "Causal Birth Defects Discovery System," Report, Tufts New England Medical Center, (1976).
  26. Donovan, John J. and Louis Gutentag, "GENIUS: Genetic/Birth Defects Information Retrieval and Update System," Tufts Medical Report E53-317, (January 1974)
  27. Donovan, John J., "Software Engineering - An Experiment and a Report," World Conference on Computer Educations, R. Scheepmaker and K. Zinn (eds.), Distributed by Science Associates/International, Inc., New York (1970)
  28. Donovan, John J., "A Formal System for the Specification of the Syntax and Translation of Computer Languages," Proceeding of the Fall Joint Computer Conference (November 1967)

University Publications

  1. Donovan, John J. and Doyle, J., "Canonic Systems and Formal Grammars", Memorandum MAC-M-491, MIT, Project MAC, August 1969.
  2. Donovan, John J., "Techniques for the Digital Simulation of Complex Systems", Memorandum MAC-M-362, MIT Project MAC, November 1967.
  3. Donovan, John J. and Ledgard, H., "Canonic Systems and Their Application to Programming Languages", Memorandum MAC-M-347, MIT Project MAC, April 1967.
  4. Donovan, John J., "Investigations in Simulation and Simulation Languages", Ph.D. Dissertation, Yale University, 1966.
  5. Donovan, John J., "GPSS Under Yale DCS-IBSYS", Memorandum No. 70, Yale Computation Center, September 1965.
  6. Donovan, John J., McKay, D. K., Seligson, D., Wogrin, C. A., "An Analysis of a Clinical Laboratory Using Simulation", Yale Medical Bulletin, Department of inical Pathology, Yale Medical School, 1965.
  7. Donovan, John J., "Simulation, Canonical Systems, Medical Clinical Laboratories", Ph.D. Thesis, Graduate School, Engineering School, Medical School, Yale University (1967)

Video tape and Software Publications

  1. Donovan, John J. and Madnick, S., "How to Succeed in Computers Without Really Trying", published by Knoware, Inc., in conjunction with Rothschild, Inc. and American Express, Inc. (1983)
  2. Donovan, John J. and Madnick, S., "Information Issues and Technologies for Management", published by McGraw-Hill/Edutronics, 13 broadcast quality edited videotapes totaling 18 hours in length, plus 300 pages of student study guide and supplemental notes (1982)
  3. Donovan, John J. and Madnick, S., "Basic Systems and Applications Programming", published by McGraw-Hill/Edutronics, 21 broadcast quality edited videotapes totaling 24 hours in length plus 300 pages of student study guide and supplemental notes (1982)
  4. Donovan, John J., "Systems Programming: MIT Course 6.251", Published by Texas Tech, 32 lectures per year, supplemented by book Systems Programming and Teachers Manual, 1969, 1970, 1971.

Patents (remainder rights given to MIT), Service Marks and Trademarks

Issued US Patents

  1. Donovan, John J. et al., "A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, STORAGE, AND ALERTING SYSTEM HAVING NETWORK MANAGEMENT, HIERARCHICAL DATA STORAGE, VIDEO TIP PROCESSING, AND VEHICLE PLATE ANALYSIS." U.S. Patent Number 7,382,244 (granted June 3, 2008 and filed October 4, 2007).
  2. Donovan, John J. et al., "Video data storage, search, and retrieval using meta-data and attribute data in a video surveillance system." U.S. Patent Number 7,460,149 (granted December 2, 2008 and filed May 28, 2007).
  3. Donovan, John J. et al., "APPARATUS, METHODS, AND SYSTEMS FOR INTELLIGENT SECURITY AND SAFETY." U.S. Patent Number 7,595,815 (granted on September 29, 2009 and filed May 8, 2007).

Pending US Patents

  1. Donovan, John J. "AN ALERTING SYSTEM FOR SAFETY, SECURITY, AND BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY HAVING ALERTS WEIGHTED BY ATTRIBUTE DATA." U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 12/106,951 (filed April 21, 2008, National Security Review in progress).
  2. Donovan, John J. "AN ALERTING SYSTEM FOR SAFETY, SECURITY, AND BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY HAVING ALERTS WEIGHTED BY ATTRIBUTE DATA." U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 12/279,720 (filed August 17, 2008).
  3. Donovan, John J. "AUDIO ANALYSIS, STORAGE, AND ALERTING SYSTEM FOR SAFETY, SECURITY, AND BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY." U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 12/207,111 (filed September 9, 2008).
  4. Donovan, John J. "SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETECTING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN IP NETWORKS" U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 12/361,501 (filed January 28, 2009)

Pending International Patents

  1. Canadian Patent: Donovan, John J. et al., "A VIDEO SURVEILLANCE, STORAGE, AND ALERTING SYSTEM HAVING NETWORK MANAGEMENT, HIERARCHICAL DATA STORAGE, VIDEO TIP PROCESSING, AND VEHICLE PLATE ANALYSIS." Canadian Patent Number not yet assigned (filed September 15, 2008).
  2. European (EPO) Patent: Donovan, John J. et al., "AN ALERTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SAFETY, SECURITY, AND BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY." European Patent Number PJC/P41147EP (filed September 25, 2008).

Provisional Patents

  1. Donovan, John J.et al., "A SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INSPECTIONS AND COMPLIANCE VERIFICATION OF INDUSTRIAL EQUIPMENT USING A HANDHELD DEVICE" U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 61/122,632 (filed December 15, 2008 )
  2. Donovan, John J.et al., “A METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR SAFE CRANE OPERATION" U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 61/077,148 (filed June 30, 2008)
  3. Donovan, John J.et al., "A SAFETY METHOD, SYSTEM, AND APPARATUS FOR ALERTING WHEN A CONSTRUCTION WORKER SAFETY HARNESS IS NOT ANCHORED" U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 61/076,681 (filed June 30, 2008)
  4. Donovan, John J.et al., "SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PASSIVELY DETECTING DNS COMPROMISE" U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 61/115,422 (filed November 17, 2008)
  5. Donovan, John J.et al., "AUTOMATIC HORSE HEALTH AND BEHAVIOR MONITORING AND ALERTING SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS" U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 61/145,622 (filed January 19, 2009)
  6. Donovan, John J. et al.,"APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR INCUBATION, AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS, AND EXPERIMENTAL ALERTING OF BIOLOGICAL CULTURES." U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 61/145,631 (filed January 19, 2009)


Issued Service Mark

  1. Cambridge Technology Group - Issued to Cambridge Technology Group (2,071,291)

Issued Trademark

  1. Surround - Issued to Cambridge Technology Group (1,607,715)

Funded Research at MIT, Yale and Tufts Medical School

Sponsor

Research Topic

American Red Cross

Birth defects (joint with Tufts School of Medicine)

National Institute of Health

Clinical laboratories (joint with Yale School of Medicine)

New England Regional Commission (NERCOM)

Support of New England Energy Management Information System (NEEMIS)

IBM Corporation

Security basic research

IBM/MIT Joint Study

Database basic research

National Bureau of Economic Research

Development of TROLL

Federal Energy Administration

Extension of Time Series Processing

ERDA

Regional solar study

ERDA

Planning and control system

U.S. Navy Underwater Systems Center

Data management

Defense Advanced Research & Planning Agency (DARPA)

Multics (became UNIX) , DARPA net (became Internet)

Federal Energy Administration

Leading indicator

MIT Institute Funds

Genetic Medical Information System (GMIS) development

MIT Energy Laboratory Funds

Model integration

MIT Energy Laboratory Funds

Flag ship study

CISR Corporate Sponsors

Management information systems

U.S. Army and NASA

NECAP

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Residential model

IBM Corporation

Home heating models

Scott Oil Company

Support data

MA State Energy Office

Development of ISEC, energy conservation

CT State Energy Office

Energy consumption, monitoring, building analysis, petroleum price data

VT State Energy Office

State automobile analysis, transportation data series

ME State Energy Office

Petroleum distributors survey, distributors and annual sales date

RI State Energy Office

Consumption monitoring procedures

NH State Energy Office

National environmental data series (boilers-emission, consumption, pollution)

NSF

Composite system, e.g. GMIS, DAZEL

ERDA

Regional home heating study

ARPA

GMIS modification for crisis management, relational databse, Multics

Rome Air Development Center

GMIS

ERDA

Northeast regional solar study

ERDA

model integration in MIT solar voltaics study

Navy, ONR Research in software hierarchies
NSF Data Management and Modeling
Department of Agriculture Food Management

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