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Academic Career

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Yale

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Tufts - School of Medicine

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Harvard University

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Other Institutions

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Education

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Government and Non-profit Advising

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Community Involvement

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Publications

Books

1. Donovan, John J., "The World is Not Flat", work in progress (2010).
2. Donovan, John J. "Ambidextrous Manager", (2000-2010) draft.
3. Donovan, John J., "The Second Industrial Revolution: Business Strategy and Internet Technology," (216p) Prentice Hall, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1998..
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Donovan, John J. and Madnick, S.E., "Teacher Manual - information systems, MIT 1982
8. 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.
9. 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
   § Systems Programming, India edition, TATA McGraw-Hill, 1991
   § Programmazione Di Sistemi, Italian edition, Etas Libri, 1977
10. Donovan, John J., "Software Projects: Pedagogical Aids for Software Education and Research," McGraw-Hill, 1977.
11. Donovan, John J., "Introduction to Computers and Programming", used in course 6.47, 15.564, MIT 1975
12. Donovan, John J.,"Introduction to Computers and Programming - Teacher's Manual", MIT 1975
13. Donovan, John J., and S.E. Madnick, "Instructor's Manual to Accompany Operating Systems," McGraw-Hill, 1974.
14. 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. "The Look of Things to Come", UNIX Review, (December 1987).
8. Donovan, John J., "Fast Answers to Tough Energy Questions", Scientific American, February (1978)
9. 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).
10. Donovan, John J., and Henry Jacoby, "Virtual Machine Communication for the Implementation of Decision Support Systems," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, (Fall 1977).
11. Donovan, John J., "A Note on Performance of VM/370 in the Integration of Models and Databases," The British Computer Journal, (November 1977).
12. Donovan, John J. and S.E. Madnick, "Institutional and Ad Hoc DSS and their effective us", (Database V. 8, No. 3, Winter, 1977)
13. Donovan, John J. "Database System Approach to Management Decision Support," ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 1, No. 4, (December 1976).
14. 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).
15. Donovan, John J., "Tools and Philosophy for Teaching Software," Communications of the ACM, (August 1976).
16. Donovan, John J. and S.E. Madnick, "Hierarchical Approach to Computer Systems Integrity," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 4, No. 2, (May 1975).
17. 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.

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Issued US Patents

1. Donovan, John J. et al., "Method, system and apparatus for discovering user agent DNS settings". U.S. Patent Number 7,747,780 (granted June 29, 2010 and filed August, 2008).
2. 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).
3. 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).
4. 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).
5. 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 (granted on May 28, 2009 and filed April 21, 2008).
6. Donovan, John J. "AUDIO ANALYSIS, STORAGE, AND ALERTING SYSTEM FOR SAFETY, SECURITY, AND BUSINESS PRODUCTIVITY." U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 12/207,111 (granted on January 1, 2009 and filed September 9, 2008).
7. Donovan, John J. "SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETECTING SECURITY VULNERABILITIES IN IP NETWORKS" U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 12/361,501 (granted on May 20, 2010 and filed January 28, 2009)
8. Donovan, John J. "METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ALERTING BY WEIGHING DATA BASED ON THE SOURCE, TIME RECEIVED, AND FREQUENCY RECEIVED" United States Patent Application 20080316315 (granted on December 25, 2008 and filed September 03, 2008)
9. Donovan, John J. "Hierarchical data storage manager, anonymous tip processing engine, and a vehicle information processing engine for security and safety applications" United States Patent 7737837 (granted on June 15, 2010 and filed on April 21, 2008)

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 12/279,720 (filed August 17, 2008).
2. Donovan, John J. "SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR PROVIDING SITUATIONAL AWARENESS, MITIGATION, RISK ANALYSIS OF ASSETS, APPLICATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE INTERNET AND CLOUD" (filed July 12, 2008)

Issued 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." WIPO Patent Application WO/2009/045218 (granted on April 9 2009 and filed Octorber 4, 2007).
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 (granted on April 8, 2009 and 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)

Recent Patent Work  January 2011

Issued Service Mark

1. Cambridge Technology Group - Issued to Cambridge Technology Group (2,071,291) updated 9/9/2009

Issued Trademark

1. Surround - Issued to Cambridge Technology Group (1,607,715)
2. Cambridge Technology Group , CTG  U.S. Trademark no. 77822899, issued renewed  4/29/2010

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Funded Research at MIT, Yale and Tufts Medical School

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