Jacques Cohen (computer scientist)
French-Brazilian computer scientist
Jacques Cohen is a professor emeritus of computer science and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University. There he served as the TJX/Feldberg Chair in Computer Science. He has performed research in algorithms, parsing and compiling, memory management, logic and constraint logic programming, and parallelism. Cohen has published extensively, frequently with undergraduate and graduate students.
Pioneering many aspects of modern computer science, Cohen's work includes experimentation, education, and research, directed and carried out at many institutions of higher learning, including Brandeis University, Brown University, MIT, Wellesley College, and French universities in the cities of Marseilles, Grenoble, and Nancy.
In 1997, the Association for Logic Programming recognized Cohen as one of the fifteen "Founders of Logic Programming".
Biography
In Belo Horizonte, Cohen attended the Engineering School of the State University of Minas Gerais. He graduated with a degree in civil engineering and a medal for having attained the best grades awarded in the preceding several years. Shortly after his graduation, Cohen was granted a Brazilian government scholarship for pursuing graduate studies in the USA.
At that time, Cohen decided to become a structural engineer. In the mid 1950s Cohen attended the Master’s program at the University of Florida, Gainesville.
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