Speech Technologies Seminar 2008
July 02, 2008
Organized by IBM Haifa Research
Lab
Mr. Oded Cohn
Director of the IBM Research Lab in Haifa (HRL), Oded Cohn
first joined IBM in 1982, when he started with the IBM Haifa
Scientific Center as a Research Fellow. Before assuming the
role of lab director, Oded served as department group
manager for Software and Services at the lab. Since joining
IBM Haifa, he has been involved with research and product
development in a variety of areas, including storage
subsystems, high availability and business continuity,
network design, distributed and parallel systems, file
systems, Java technology, medical information systems, and
solutions and software in support of services.
Oded was a member of the advanced R&D storage systems team
in San Jose, CA from 1991 to 1992. He received his B.Sc.
(1979) and M.Sc. (1982) in computer science from the
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. He is the author
and co-author of over a dozen US patents and has been
awarded IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement and
Outstanding Invention Awards. Currently, Oded is an adjunct
lecturer in the Computer Science Department of the Haifa
University, teaching computer communication networks.
