Cal Newport '04
Appointments
Computer scientist
2023 Summer
Biography
Cal Newport '04 is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His scholarship focuses on the theory of distributed systems, while his general-audience writing explores intersections of culture and technology.
He is the author of seven books, including, most recently, A World Without Email, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. These titles include multiple New York Times bestsellers and have been published in 40 languages. Newport is also a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the host of the Deep Questions podcast.
Newport was a visiting faculty member in the Department of Computer Science.
In The News
- Why I Left Twitter (Making Sense with Sam Harris, 2022)
- Cal Newport '04: A digital tech expert on working smarter (Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, 2021)
- How 'A World Without Email' Could Increase Productivity, Happiness At Work (NPR's Here & Now, 2021)
- Computer Science Professors Says We Can Probably Make Email Better For Everyone (NPR's All Things Considered, 2019)
- It's Not Too Late to Quit Social Media (Wall Street Journal, 2019)
Montgomery Conversations
How Worried Should We Be About AI? A Conversation with Cal Newport: Computer scientist Cal Newport '04 draws from his recent reporting on this topic for The New Yorker to explain how the latest innovations in AI actually work, separating the impacts we really should worry about from those that are mainly hype.