Paul Cohen
computer scientist.
Paul Cohen is a professor of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh and the CEO of Causerie.AI, which extracts knowledge from text at scale. Prior to becoming the Founding Dean of the School of Computing and Information at Pitt in 2017, he was a program manager in DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, where he designed and managed the Big Mechanism, Communicating with Computers, and World Modelers programs. He worked at DARPA under an IPA agreement with the University of Arizona, where he founded the School of Information: Sciences, Technology and Arts, now the School of Information. His research is in aspects of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, with interest in how language, communication, and AI methods can foster understanding of highly complicated systems such as cell signaling pathways, biophysical, and socio-economic systems. He is the son of the artist Harold Cohen.
From On Creativity in Digital Art, March 2026
