Michael Cohen's Vita

• Contact

  
  Spatial Media Group 
  
  Computer Arts Lab. 
  
  University of Aizu 
  
  Aizu-Wakamatsu-shi,
  Fukushima-ken
  965-8580 
  
  Japan
  
      
  voice
  [+81](242)37-2537
      
  fax
  [+81](242)37-2549
      
  e-mail
  mcohen@u-aizu.ac.jp
      
  WWW
  http://www.u-aizu.ac.jp/~mcohen
  
  

• Academic background

  1976

  Tower Hill School (Wilmington, DE )

  1980

  Sc.B., EE, Brown University (Providence, RI). Additional studies in photography at Rhode Island School of Design.

  1988

  M.S., CS, University of Washington (Seattle, WA). Project: airDrum/airBaton (driving a synthesizer or sequencer with a DataGlove, constructing a (programmably arbitrary) musical instrument or conductors' tool). Advisor: Ken Sloan.

  1991

  Ph.D., EECS, 1991, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) Dissertation: Multidimensional Audio Windows: Extending User Interfaces through the Use of Spatial Audio Information. Advisor: Gary Kendall.

  1991

  Postdoc, HITLab, University of Washington (Seattle, WA).

  1991-92

  Research Fellow (postdoc), NTT Human Interface Labs (Musashino, Tokyo)

  1991-92

  Adjunct Professor, Industrial Engineering, University of Washington (Seattle, WA)

  1991-92

  Research Fellow NTT Human Interface Labs (Yokosuka, Japan)

• Professional Experience
  • 1978: Programmer; Air Force Geophysics Lab. (Hanscom Field, Massachusetts)
  • 1979: Programmer; Weizmann Institute of Science, Applied Mathematics Dept. (Rehovot, Israel)
  • 1980-2: Engineer; Teradyne (Boston, MA)
  • 1982-6: Software Engineer; Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (Cambridge, MA and Stuttgart, Germany ) [BBN was purchased by GTE: part become Genuity, and part merged with Bell Atlantic to form Verizon]
  • 1988: Member, Technical Staff; Bellcore (now "Telcordia") (Red Bank, NJ)
  • 1990: Member, Technical Staff; Bellcore (now "Telcordia") (Morristown, NJ)
• Academic and Professional Society Membership
  • ACM
  • IEEE Computer Society
  • Virtual Reality Society of Japan
  • TeX Users Group
  • 3D Forum: the Forum for Advancement of Three Dimensional Image Technology and Arts
• Publications
• Patents
  • Helical T-Shirt: US Design patent D279,937 (6 August 1985)
    • description
    • figures: basic design (collar->waist)
    • figures: elaborations (double helix, sleeve->waist)
    • photograph of double helical configuration
  • Sound Reproducing Device: Japanese patent 3042731 (10 March 2000)
• Hobbies
  • movies
  • bicycling (with family and Burley)
  • takkyu (ping pong)
  • ultimate flying disc (frisbee)