John Maxwell Cohn (born February 9, 1959) is an American engineer. Cohn is best known as the engineer scientist in the

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TV show, The Colony. He is an

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in at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Laboratory. Previous to that John was Chief Scientist of the

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division. He holds an undergraduate electrical engineering degree from the

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, as well as a doctoral degree from

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. Cohn has authored over 40 papers and has more than 120 worldwide patents. Cohn's presentation concerning electricity, entitled ''Jolts and Volts'', has been performed for more than 50,000 students world wide, including performances at

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, and the

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. In October 2013 Cohn was a presenter at a

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conference. TEDxDelft 2013 was themed "Do try this at home" and Cohn's talk was titled "The importance of play".

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Presenting at Cusp Conference 2009 (video)
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