HOWARD J. COHEN, Ph.D.

President
Cohen Software Consulting, Inc.
3272 Cowper Street
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Publications

White Paper: Changing How Science is Pursued - Paradigm Shifts From Optical Networking, Howard J. Cohen, Nortel Networks White Paper, Jan 2004
Available at http://www.cohensw.com/pub/Optiputer_whitepaper_2Feb2004.rtf

White Paper: A New Middleware and Networking Architecture to Support HEP Data Intensive Grid Applications, Howard J. Cohen, Nortel Networks White Paper, Jan 2004
Available at http://www.cohensw.com/pub/DoE_whitepaper_8Jan2004.rtf

DWDM-RAM: An Architecture for Data Intensive Service Enabled by Next Generation Dynamic Optical Networks, D. B. Hoang, H. Cohen, D. Cutrell, S. Figueira, T. Lavian, J. Mambretti, I. Monga, S. Naiksatam, F. Travostino, to appear in IEEE Globecom 2004, Workshop on High-Performance Global Grid Networks, Houston, November 2004.

A Platform for Large-Scale Grid Data Service on Dynamic High-Performance Networks, Tal Lavian, Doan Hoang, Joe Mambretti, Silvia Figueira, Sumit Naiksatam, Neena Kaushik, Monga Inder, Ramesh Durairaj, Doug Cutrell, Steve Merrill, Howard Cohen, Paul Daspit, Franco Travostino, paper presented at Broadnets 2004, First International Conference on Broadband Networks, San Jose, CA, 25-29 Oct 2004.
Available at http://www.broadnets.org/2004/workshop-papers/Gridnets/LavianTal.pdf

A Grid Network Service Architecture for Dynamic Optical Networks, Tal Lavian, Steve Merrill, Howard Cohen, Doan Hoang, Joe Mambretti, Silvia Figueira, Doug Cutrell, Sumit Naiksatam, Franco Travostino, paper submitted to the Journal of Grid Computing, special issue on High Performance Networking, to be published mid-2004.

DWDM-RAM: An Architecture for Data Intensive Service Enabled by Next Generation Dynamic Optical Networks, D.B. Hoang, H. Cohen, D. Cutrell, S. Figueira, T. Lavian, J. Mambretti, I. Monga, S. Naiksatam, F. Travostino, paper submitted to IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Intelligent Services and Applications in Next Generation Networks, to be published Q1 2005.

DWDM-RAM: Enabling Grid Services with Dynamic Optical Networks, S. Figueira, S. Naiksatam, H. Cohen, D. Cutrell, D. Gutierrez, D. B. Hoang, T. Lavian, J. Mambretti, S. Merrill, F. Travostino, paper submitted to be presented at GAN'04 (Workshop on Grids and Networks), held in conjunction with CCGrid 2004 (4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid), Chicago, IL, 19-22 April 2004.

DWDM-RAM: A Data Intensive Grid Service Architecture Enabled by Dynamic Optical Networks, T. Lavian, J. Mambretti, D. Cutrell, H. Cohen,, S. Merrill, R. Durairaj, P. Daspit, I. Monga, S. Naiksatam, S. Figueira, D. Gutierrez, D. Hoang, F. Travostino, poster to be presented at CCGrid 2004 (4th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid), Chicago, IL, 19-22 April 2004.

DWDM-RAM: DARPA-Sponsored Research for Data Intensive Service-on-Demand Advanced Optical Networks, Tal Lavian, Guo-Qiang Wang, Franco Travostino, David Gutierrez, Doug Cutrell, Howard Cohen, Guoli Yin, Inder Monga, Steve Merrill, Hal Edwards, Paul Daspit, Joe Mambretti, Aaron Johnson, Jeremy Weinberger, Fei Yeh, Jim Chen, Sumit Naiksatam, Silvia Figueira, Doan Hoang, Poster presented at the Global Grid Forum 9 (GGF9), Chicago, IL, 6-8 Oct 2003.

An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Bioinformatics, Howard J. Cohen, Paper presented at the Twenty-Ninth Asilomar Microcomputer Workshop, 23 April 2003 (Slides are available at http://www.cohensw.com/amw2003/amw2003.html)

Biotechnology - Issues and Opportunities for Us, Howard J. Cohen, PATCA Journal, Fall 2002, pp 6-7 (available at http://www.cohensw.com/pub/patcajournal_2002Q4.pdf)

Method for Filtering Chemical Noise in ESI Mass Spectra, Curtis A. Hastings, Howard J. Cohen, Scott M. Norton, to be submitted to Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry (2002)

Further Modifications to Incyte's 96 Lane ABD 377 Sequencer, with Eric Lachenmeier, et al., paper presented at the Tenth International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference, 17 - 20 September 1998, Miami, Florida (September 1998)

Bob TCCS Structure and Migration Plan, Incyte Pharmaceuticals Internal report (HTML on internal Web pages), (April 1998)

Maximizing the Sample Capacity of the ABI Fluorescent Sequencing Machine, Model 377, with Eric Lachenmeier, et al., paper presented at the Ninth International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference, 13-16 September 1997, Hilton Head, South Carolina (September 1997)

New DNA Sequencing Technologies: 96-Capillary Array Sequencer Implementation; Solid Phase Capturable Terminator Sequencing Chemistry; Multiplex DNA Sequencing with Energy Transfer Fluorescent Tags, with Jingyue Ju, et al., paper presented at the Ninth International Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference, 13-16 September 1997, Hilton Head, South Carolina (September 1997)

Overview of the Chromatogram Archive for LifeSeq Gold™, Incyte Pharmaceuticals Internal Report (text and HTML on internal Web pages) (August 1997)

An Overview of "Simulated Annealing" Lane Tracking, Incyte Pharmaceuticals Internal Report (text and HTML on internal Web pages) (June 1997)

Message Generation via Templates – Functional Specification and Template Language Definition, Teknekron Software Systems report prepared for Chevron International Oil Company (May 1996)

Programmer's Guide to WXE (wxEdit), prepared for WeatherNews, Inc. (December 1995)

Ship Status Reports, with Payam Mirrashidi, prepared for WeatherNews, Inc. (November 1995)

Design Specification for vpp, the VSR Preprocessor, prepared for WeatherNews (May 1995)

VPS Weather Editing – wxEdit, prepared for WeatherNews, Inc. (May 1995)

Voyage Summary Report Print/Plot Package, with Payam Mirrashidi, prepared for WeatherNews, Inc. (February 1995)

VSR Database Interface Specification, prepared for WeatherNews, Inc. (November 1994)

Multi-Chip Cell Implications for Import GUI and Batch Programs, Quickturn Design Systems External Reference Specification (September 1994)

Saturn Global Nets GUI, Quickturn Design Systems External Reference Specification (June 1994)

Scoped Nets (fixScopedNets), with Jerry Bauer, Quickturn Design Systems Internal Architecture Specification (May 1994)

VSR (Voyage Summary Report) Interface – Functional Specification, prepared for WeatherNews, Inc. (April 1994)

Scoped Nets (fixScopedNets), with Jerry Bauer, Quickturn Design Systems External Reference Specification (April 1994)

Source Level ECO, Quickturn Design Systems External Reference Specification (April 1994)

Source Level ECO, Quickturn Design Systems Internal Architecture Specification (April 1994)

Verilog Import Test Plan (vim), Quickturn Design Systems (February 1994)

Saturn Verilog Import GUI, Quickturn Design Systems External Reference Specification (November 1993)

Saturn Verilog Import (vim), Quickturn Design Systems Internal Architecture Specification (October 1993)

Usability: Automatic Template File Creation, Quickturn Design Systems External Reference Specification (April 1993)

ViP RunTime Internals Overview, Zycad Corporation (November 1992)

ViP Code Review Process, Zycad Corporation (August 1992)

TradeMaker Database Technical Specification, FXD/Telerate Design Specification (October 1990)

FXCalculator Component Specification, FXD/Telerate Design Specification (September 1990)

Electrical Rules Checker -- Internal Product Specification, with Jack Klebanoff and Mark Perkins, DAISY Internal Report, (November 1986)

Design Specification for the Auto/Interactive Placement Improvement System (IMPROVE PLACEMENT Command in LED -- PIM), DAISY Internal Report 2.166 (February 1984)

Design Specification for the Auto/Interactive Placement Program (PLACE), DAISY Internal Report 2.98, (May 1983)

Design Specification for PINUP, a Routing Tool, DAISY Internal Report 2.97 (March 1983)

Specification of the Syntax to be Used for Communications of Gate Array Layouts Between DAISY and Gate Array Manufacturers, DAISY Internal Report 2.96 (March 1983)

Design Specification for the MAKE Program for Motorola (MKMOTO), DAISY Internal Report 2.75 (November 1982)

Coherent Processing in Broad Area Surveillance: 1982 Technology Assessment, with others, Acoustic Research Center, Moffett Field, CA (October 1982) (SECRET)

BASIS Operator's Manual, Ensco, Inc., Report UR005 (February 1982)

North Sea Wave Forecasting System Users' Manual -- An Introduction, History, and Guide to the Use and Interpretation of System Function and Outputs, report presented to Oceanroutes (December 1981)

Preliminary Investigation of Alternative Pairwise Detection Statistics, with Terence E. Needham and Gregory L. Orr, Ensco, Inc. Report UR004 (May 1981)

M-Out-Of-N Detection -- Theory, Statistics, Performance and Implementation, with Gregory L. Orr and Gary D. Godshalk, Ensco, Inc. Report UR003 (May 1981)

BASIS Users' Manual, Ensco, Inc. Report UR002 (March 1981)

Automated Detection Techniques for Coherent Inter-array Processing, Ensco, Inc. Report VSD-158, (December 1980) (SECRET)

Australian Wave Forecasting System Users' Manual -- An Introduction, History, and Guide to the Use and Interpretation of System Function and Outputs, report presented to Oceanroutes (December 1980)

Single Array Pair Tracking of Merchant Vessels at the ARC, paper presented at the 1980 Naval Undersea Surveillance Symposium, Monterey, California (24-27 June 1980) (SECRET)

Signal Processing and Tracking Implications of a Moving Source, Ensco Technical Memorandum (February 1980)

Status Report on Multiplate Grid Technology, Oceanroutes Internal Report (June 1979)

Air-Sea Temperature Difference -- Effects on Wave Growth, Modeling, and Incorporation into Oceanroutes' Spectral Wave Forecasting System, Oceanroutes Internal Report (1979)

On the Simulation of Ocean-Wave Generation, Propagation and Dissipation by Numerical Spectral Models, and Some Real-Time Engineering Applications, with William A. Silveria, paper presented at the Summer Computer Simulation Conference, 16-18 July 1979, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1979)

A Sliding Microtubule Model Incorporating Axonemal Twist and Compatibility with Three-Dimensional Ciliary Bending, with Michael E. J. Holwill and Peter Satir, Journal of Experimental Biology, 78, 265-280 (1979)

Users' Manual for Wave Model Creation and Generation, Oceanroutes Internal Report (1978)

North Sea Hindcast of 29 September - 10 October 1977 -- Final Report, Oceanroutes Internal Report (1978)

The Complete Guide to the East Coast Forecasting System -- Internal Logic and Techniques, and Operational Use, Oceanroutes Internal Report (1976)

Status Report on a Hasselman-Barnett Type Spectral Wave Model, Oceanroutes Internal Report (1976)

BSHIP, Computer Sciences Corporation CR (1976)

DHC-6 Twin Otter/Spoiler Airplane Simulation, Computer Sciences Corporation PR4-75 (1975)

The Ring Diagram Approximation and the Polarization Tensor at High Densities in Quantumelectrodynamics and Quantumgravidynamics, University Microfilms (1974)

Neutron Stars, with H. Quintana, lectures given by Malvin Ruderman at the "Ettore Majorana" Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, 22 May - 1 June 1971 (mimeographed, Bologna, 1971)

The Arden House Proposal, with E. Safier and S. Kasdan, presented at the American Physical Society--American Institute of Physics Teachers Washington Meeting (April 1971)
 


Note: Items denoted (SECRET) were classified reports written for the DARPA and Navy sponsors of the research.

Patents

Co-inventor of the following patents applied for by Nortel Networks:

Method and Apparatus for Scheduling Resources on a Switched Underlay Network, William Doug Cutrell, Howard J. Cohen, Tal Lavian, 10/719,225, filed 21 November 2003. Published 07 April 2005 as 20050076336.

Method and Apparatus for Preconditioning Data to be Transferred on a Switched Underlay Network, Steve Merrill, William Douglas Cutrell, Howard J. Cohen, Tal Lavian, 10/812,634, filed 30 March 2004. Published as 07 April 2005 as 20050076173.

Method and Apparatus for Automated Negotiation for Resources on a Switched Underlay Network, Steve Merrill, William Douglas Cutrell, Howard J. Cohen, Tal Lavian, 10/812,581, filed 30 March 2004.

Method and Apparatus for Transporting Visualization Information on a Switched Underlay Network, Howard Cohen, Tal Lavian, Richard Brand, 10/870,468, filed 17 June 2004.

 

 

Co-inventor of 114 patents applied for by Incyte Genomics, including:

System and Methods for Analyzing Biomolecular Sequences, Lincoln, et al., filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics, March 1999.

Protein Modification and Maintenance Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/528741, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics, 20 March 2000.

Adhesion Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/599105, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Antigen Recognition Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/585881, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Biochemical Pathway Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/585799, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Chromatin Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/587456, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Cytosketetal Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/585801, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Extracellular Information Transmission Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/588112, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Human Enzyme Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/585800, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Molecules Associated With Growth and Development, Hodgson, et al., 09/585799, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

Secreted and Extracellular Molecules, Hodgson, et al., 09/585715, filed on behalf of Incyte Genomics 31 May 2000.

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