John R. Levine

Co-author of The Internet for Dummies (with Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young), Levine is an Internet author and consultant specializing in email infrastructure, spam filtering, and software patents.

Levine has chaired the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF), has served as president of CAUCE (the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), and has been a member of the ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers) At-Large Advisory Committee. He also runs Taughannock Networks.

Levine co-authored many books, including The Internet For Dummies (with Carol Baroudi and Margaret Levine Young), UNIX For Dummies (with Margaret Levine Young), Fighting Spam for Dummies (with Margaret Levine Young and Ray Everett-Church), and flex & bison. He also served as the mayor of the village of Trumansburg, New York, United States from March 2004 until March 2007.

Levine graduated from Yale University in 1975 and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale in 1984 with a thesis about the design and implementation of small databases. He co-founded Segue Software and has served as a board member there, and joined Javelin Software as Senior Programmer. John has been a member of the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., one of the first computer clubs in the United States. He also served as the sole moderator of the comp.compilers Usenet group for 25 years.