ST. LOUIS, MO, November 19, 2019 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Jerome Cox, Jr., with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Mr. Cox celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
With more than 60 years of professional experience to his credit, Mr. Cox has found much success as the founder and the president of Q-Net Security, Incorporated since 2015, the founder and the chief executive officer of Blendics since 2007, and a senior professor at Washington University in Saint Louis since 1999. Previously, he served as the vice president of Growth Networks from 1999 to 2000, the director of the Applied Research Laboratory at Washington University in Saint Louis between 1991 and 1995, a Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor in Computer Science at Washington University in Saint Louis from 1989 until 1998, a professor of biomedicine within the Institute for Biomedicine Computing at Washington University in St. Louis from 1983 to 2000, and the founding chairman of the department of computer science at Washington University in St. Louis between 1975 and 1991. Prior to these appointments, Mr. Cox was active at the aforementioned university as a program director from 1970 until 1978, the chairman of computer laboratories from 1967 to 1983, the director of the biomedical computer laboratory between 1964 and 1975, and a professor of electrical engineering from 1961 until 2000.
Additionally, Mr. Cox began his illustrious career in 1954 as the director of the now-shuttered Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Outside of his primary roles in his field, he was an advisory committee member at Johns Hopkins Department of Biomedical Engineering and was a member of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research between 1990 and 1995. Mr. Cox has also contributed to the advisory committees at Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Heart and Lung Institute.
Mr. Cox gravitated to his professional path at a young age; at 11 years old, he took apart a small plastic radio and became fascinated upon examining the different parts inside of it. After this discovery, he decided to buy an American Radio Relay League handbook, from which he learned about electronics and developed an even stronger interest in the field. Moreover, during this time, his geometry teacher in high school opened his mind to mathematics. Before embarking on his career journey, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a Bachelor of Science in 1947, a Master of Science in 1949, and a Doctor of Science in 1954. From 1943 to 1944, Mr. Cox served in the United States Army.
After leaving the Liberty Mutual Research Institute in 1955 Mr. Cox was employed at the Central Institute for the Deaf in St Louis, where he was challenged by the Director of Research, Hallowell Davis to implement an idea he had for measuring the hearing of infants. In 1961 Cox, along with his graduate student A. M. Engebretson, designed and built a special-purpose digital computer that was used by Davis to pioneer the field of early detection of deafness. This research has since led to mandated screening tests for newborn infants throughout most of the United States. Infants so identified can then be provided with pre-K education and cochlear surgery that dramatically improves their lives, lives that would otherwise be handicapped by deafness.
In 1964 Mr. Cox founded the Biomedical Computer Laboratory, an organization dedicated to the introduction of small computers to biomedical research. Teams of engineers led by Cox developed the first interactive-graphics system for radiation-treatment planning, the first computer-based monitoring system for cardiac intensive care, the first dynamic images of tracer washout from the brain and pioneered the mathematical foundation for the first positron-emission tomograph (PET). Other achievements include patents and innovations in computerized tomography, the display of radiological images, network traffic pacing, and impenetrable protection against cybersecurity threats.
Mr. Cox has extended his services in the field to various organizations over the course of his professional life, serving on the board of directors of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis from 1997 to 1999 and board of managers of the Central Institute for the Deaf from 1993 until the present. He has been elected a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics, the Acoustical Society of America and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine. Furthermore, he has remained affiliated with Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa, and Sigma Xi. He has served as a member of the editorial boards for Computers and Biomedical Research from 1967 to 2000 and Applied Mathematics Letters from 1987 to 1996. In 1951 Mr. Cox married his wife, Barbara, who passed away in 2006, Mr. Cox has three children, eight grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren.
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