Michael H. Coen Postdoctoral Associate mhcoen @ csail.mit.edu MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab 32 Vassar Street, 32-G478 (617) 258-7621 Cambridge, MA 02139   Home Work    Personal    Photos

Briefest of Biological Sketches:

1996-2000: Led the Intelligent Room Project at MIT's AI Lab.

2000-2004: Chief scientist of a Wall Street startup company in NYC.

October 2004: Had the good fortune to marry Aimee Becker.

January 2005: Returned to MIT to finish my dissertation.

May 2006: Received my Ph.D.

Currently: Postdoc at CSAIL, pursuing biologically-inspired computation.

A random fact about me that hopefully can't be used for identify theft:

My favorite (Mersenne) prime number is 2¹⁹-1, because it was discovered in 1588. 
(Exercise for the reader, try showing that using only paper and pencil. Or if you're a
purist, quill and parchment.)