People who have minimal intellectual capacities in most domains, but show an exceptional ability in another "intelligent" process, such as math, music, or art. go to glossary index

Autism: the facts, S Baron Cohen and P Bolton Individuals with moderate or profound learning disabilities, who possess special talents, usually in the areas of music, mathematics, drawing or calendrical calculations.

Middleware created by the Auto-ID Center to filter data from EPC readers and pass it on to enterprise systems. It was envisioned that Savants would reside on servers across the EPC Network and pass data to one another and act as a kind of nervous system for the network. The term is being phase out by EPCglobal and many of the functions of Savants are being incorporated in commercial middleware products.