Keynote Speakers
John Cohn
IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Design Automation at IBM
An innovator in the area of design automation for both analog and digital custom integrated circuits, Dr. John Cohn was elected a Fellow in 2005 in recognition to contribution to the high performance custom circuit design automation.
Dr. Cohn received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering at MIT, and earned a Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University. He has authored more than 30 technical papers and has contributed to four books on design automation. Dr. Cohn has more than 50 patents issued or pending in the field of design automation, methodology, and circuits.
Dr. Cohn is active in education issues at a local, state and national level. He has been an adjunct professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Vermont and has taught part time at both high school and elementary school levels. He frequently takes his traveling "Jolts and Volts" electricity show to schools, community groups, universities and museums across the country, including such diverse venues as the New York Hall of Science, the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, and frequent shows at Disney Epcot Center in Florida. Dr. Cohn is so passionate about promoting science and engineering that he spent 58 days living and inventing in an abandoned steel mill as part of Discovery Channel's new technical survival show "The Colony."
Dr. Cohn lives with his family in a restored schoolhouse in northern Vermont and is eager to share his love of science and engineering with anyone who will listen. You can read more about Dr. Cohn by reading his daily blog at http://blog.myspace.com/johncohn.
Dr. Cohn will speak at the ISMI Symposium on Thursday, November 4.
