Ellis Cohen's BU Home Page

E-mail: escohen@bu.edu

 

I teach a variety of courses in the Computer Science Department in Boston University's Metropolitan College

• CS 579: Theory, Practice & Methodology of Relational Database Design & Programming
  
• CS 669: Design & Implementation of Relational Databases for Business
  
• CS 679: Architecture & Design of Multi-Tiered Systems
  
• CS 682: Information Systems Analysis & Design
  
• CS 779: Advanced Database Topics
  
• CS 782: Enterprise Information Systems Strategy, Technology & Management
  

I'm currently (Fall 2009) teaching CS 579 in Chelmsford

I have a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and have experience envisioning, architecting and managing a variety of R&D projects, inlcudiing stints as a CTO, and as a DB, technology and strategy consultant. I am currently a principal architect at ICS. For more, see my slightly outdatedcurriculum vitae

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You can read about Templet, an interesting web scripting language I developed in the late 90's.

You can also read some interesting papers I wrote when I worked at the Open Software Foundation:

• My classic paper from the 1994 WWW Conference, Review-Based Information Services: Lessons Learned from the Boston Restaurant List, which predicted the advent of web services.
  


• Information Location for the WebTop, a 1996 paper which proposed a uniform mechanism for characterizing, filtering and ranking information, independent of source (i.e. whether in a personal repository, a workgroup repository, or out on the network), independent of how it became known (notification, search, or browsing) and independent of type (e.g. files/objects, e-mail/notifications/net-news).

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I also direct OpenLine Consulting, a training and consulting company focused on IT Strategy and on Relational Database Design.

For personal information, see my personal web site at users.rcn.com/e.cohen