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Jacques Cohen, is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and of the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University. He served as the TJX/Feldberg Chair in Computer Science. All aspects of his field appeal to him, and he has performed research in algorithms, parsing and compiling, memory management, logic and constraint logic programming, and parallelism. With over 60 publications, Cohen has published extensively, often with undergraduate and graduate students. Pioneering many aspects of modern computer science, Cohen's life 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 The Association for Logic Programming recognized Cohen as a pioneer in the field by bestowing him with the title of being one of the fifteen "Founders of Logic Programming." ==Biography== Cohen was born in Brazil to immigrant parents: his mother came from Salonica, Greece, where a large Jewish community prospered before WWII; and his father was born and lived in Jerusalem, then under British mandate. His parents met while his mother was visiting a relative in Jerusalem. They migrated to Brazil shortly after their marriage, establishing themselves in the town of Belo Horizonte. In Belo Horizonte, Cohen attended the local public high school and was admitted, after very competitive entrance examinations, to the Engineering School of the State University of Minas Geraes, the state whose capital is Belo. He graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering with highest honors, which included 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 U.S. At that time, Cohen decided to become a structural engineer and dreamt of building steel bridges and skyscrapers. For him, that meant assessing their soundness by performing sometimes-toilsome computations. In the mid fifties, Cohen made the decision to attend the Master’s program at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Cohen continued his graduate work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he pursued a doctorate in Structural Design. His doctoral dissertation involved energy minimization using Raleigh-Ritz methods to determine Fourier series coefficients defining shapes of buckling columns made of thin-walled plates (60 ). This particular topic enabled Cohen to learn a great deal of assembly language programming and the solution of systems of non-linear equations resulting from the energy minimization process. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jacques Cohen (computer scientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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