John Cohn

John Cohn is an IBM fellow in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, where he develops AI hardware and supercomputing for AI workflows. Cohn earned a BSEE from MIT, and a PhD in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He has authored more than 30 technical papers, contributed to four books and has more than 100 worldwide patents. In 2005, Cohn was elected a fellow of the IEEE. He is active in education issues at a local, state and national level. He is so passionate about promoting STEM careers that he spent 59 days living and inventing in an abandoned steel mill as part of Discovery Channel’s technical survival show “The Colony”. Cohn lives with his family in a restored 19th century schoolhouse in Jonesville, Vermont and is eager to share his love of science and technology with anyone who will listen.