Adapx founder Dr. Philip Cohen is also one of our key researchers. Most recently, Philip was professor and co-director of the Center for Human-Computer Communication in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Oregon Health and Science University. Cohen founded NIS in 1999 as a spin-off of the Oregon Graduate Institute, later renamed the Oregon Health and Science University. Philip graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He later received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. 

During the past 30 years, Philip has done pioneering research in the areas of multimodal interaction, multi-agent systems, and human-computer dialogue. He has been president of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a Scientific Advisor to the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research, and participated in a National Research Council panel that reviewed NASA’s Pioneering Revolutionary Technology—Engineering for Complex Systems program.

Philip has served on numerous advisory committees to United States Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and serves as Associate editor of the journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent System. Philip has more than 100 journal and conference publications. He was recently awarded one of the two inaugural Influential Paper Awards by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for his work with Prof. Hector Levesque (U. Toronto) on Intention is Choice with Commitment.

Publications include:

Cohen, P. R., McGee, D. R., Clow, J., "The efficiency of multimodal interaction for a map-based task," in the Proceedings of the Applied Natural Language Processing Conference (ANLP'00), Seattle, WA, April 29-May 4, 2000, Morgan Kaufmann, pp. 331-338.

Cohen, P. R., Johnston, M., McGee, D., Oviatt, S., Pittman, J., Smith, I., Chen, L., and Clow, J. (1997). QuickSet: Multimodal interaction for distributed applications, Proceedings of the Fifth International Multimedia Conference (Multimedia '97), ACM Press, pp 31-40.

Cohen, P. R. & Oviatt, S. L. (1995). The role of voice input for human-machine communication, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 92 (22) 9921-9927. Abstract

Cohen, P. R. and Levesque, H. J. 1991. "Teamwork," Nous 25(4), Special Issue on Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, 1991 pp. 487-512.

Cohen, P. R. and Levesque, H. J. Intention is Choice with Commitment, Artificial Intelligence, 1990, 42(2-3), pp. 213-361.