Curriculum: Jordan Cohen has served as the Chief Technology Officer of Voice Signal Technologies of Woburn, Massachusetts since 2000. At Voice Signal, where the Company focuses on embedded large vocabulary speech recognition solutions for mobile wireless devices and the electronic entertainment industry, Cohen's charter is to guide the company's technical vision, to investigate alliances with other technical or marketing organizations, to analyze technical solutions relative to market opportunities, and to assist with resource planning, recruiting, and intellectual property protection. Prior to joining Voice Signal, Cohen was the Director of Business Relations at desktop speech recognition leader Dragon Systems in Newton Mass, where he acted as liaison with US government funding agencies, and guided the emerging business of Audio Mining, which used Dragon s state-of-the-art speech recognition technology. Before Dragon, Cohen served on the staff of the Institutes for Defense Analyses in Princeton, NJ. Dr. Cohen was also active in speech recognition research at IBM in the mid-1980s, where he designed and implemented the signal processing system used in Tangora, the large vocabulary office dictation system that led the state of the art in the 1980's. Prior to IBM, he developed speech and signals algorithms for the Department of Defense. Jordan was the founder of a series of speech recognition workshops, which began at the Center for Aids to Industrial Productivity at Rutgers, and is now an annual event at Johns Hopkins University. Jordan serves on the AURORA subcommittee of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, and is a member of the board of trustees of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. He is also a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the IEEE, and the ESCA. Dr. Cohen holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Connecticut.