Scholarship and Biography

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".

Honors

Gold Medal Award (1st in class) U. Minas Gerais
Hospital das Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil, Belo Horizonte) - HC-UFMG, 1955
Zayre/Feldberg Chair in Computer Science
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 1986
Editor-in-Chief, Communications of the ACM
Association for Computing Machinery (United States, New York) - ACM, 1992
TJX Feldberg Chair
Brandeis University (United States, Waltham), 2019

Organizational Affiliations

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Michtom School of Computer Science, Brandeis University

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D.
University of Florida
M.S.