| Honorific Prefix: | Dr |
| John Cohn | |
| Birth Date: | February 9, 1959 |
| Birth Place: | Manhattan, New York, United States |
| Occupation: | IBM Fellow and Computer Engineer |
| Spouse: | Diane Mariano[1] |
| Children: | Max, Sam (Died 2006), Gabe |
John Maxwell Cohn (born February 9, 1959) is an American engineer. Cohn is best known as the engineer scientist in the Discovery Channel TV show, The Colony.[2] He is an IBM Fellow at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Laboratory. Previous to that John was Chief Scientist of the Internet of Things division.[3] He holds an undergraduate electrical engineering degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a doctoral degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Cohn has authored over 40 papers and has more than 120 worldwide patents.[3] [4]
Cohn's presentation concerning electricity, entitled Jolts and Volts, has been performed for more than 50,000 students world wide, including performances at Walt Disney World, and the New York Hall of Science.[5] [6]
In October 2013 Cohn was a presenter at a TEDx conference. TEDxDelft 2013 was themed "Do try this at home" and Cohn's talk was titled "The importance of play".[7] [8]