John R. Levine

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John R. Levine is an Internet consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and software patents. He chairs the Anti-Spam Research Group or ASRG of the IRTF, is a board member of CAUCE (the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), a member of the ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) At-Large Advisory Committee, and runs Taughannock Networks. He has co-authored many books, including The Internet For Dummies (with Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young) and UNIX For Dummies (with Margaret Levine Young). He is also mayor of the village of Trumansburg, New York, United States.

Levine graduated from Yale University in 1974 and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale a few years later with a thesis about the implementation of small databases. He was a co-founder and board member of Segue Software and Senior Programmer at Javelin Software.

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