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Dr. Philip R. Cohen, Adapx |
Dr. Philip Cohen was most recently 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 (which was later renamed the Oregon Health and Science University).
During the past 30 years, Cohen has done pioneering research in the areas of multimodal interaction, multiagent 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.
He 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. Cohen has more than 100 journal and conference publications. He was recently awarded the inaugural Influential Paper Award by the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems for his work with Prof. Hector Levesque (U. Toronto) on the theory of intention.
Cohen graduated from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. He later received both his M.S. and PhD in Computer Science at the University of Toronto. Cohen has also been a researcher or faculty member at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., Oregon State University, the University of Illinois, Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, and SRI International.
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