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Aircraft"; US Patent 3,976,885 (1976) "Tomography System Having Concurrent Compound Axial Scanning"; US Patent 7,106,693 (2006) "Method and Apparatus for Pacing the Flow of Information Sent from a Device"; US
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Both BCL and CSL played a major national role in pioneering the acceptance of laboratory computing by the biomedical research community. Their successful projects not only closely involved scientific collaborators but also introduced students from the engineering disciplines into the biomedical
102:(May 24, 1925 – January 17, 2023) was an American computer pioneer, scientist, and entrepreneur. Cox contributed significantly to the areas of biomedical computing, multimedia communications, and computer networking. Cox was the founding chairman of the Department of Computer Science at
358:. Cox was the Harold B. and Adelaide G. Welge Professor of Computer Science at Washington University from 1989–1998. In 2011, he was recognized with the School of Engineering & Applied Science’s Dean’s Award. Cox was elected to the 2019 Class of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Patent 7,243,255 B2 (2007) "Design of
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1206:. United States Patent and Trademark Office. July 10, 2017.
877:. Boulder Creek, California: DigiBarn. November 3–4, 2007.
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Cox, Jerome R. (2023-01-01). O'Connor, Candace (ed.).
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1010:"Jerome R. Cox Jr, ScD, FACMI"
926:. St. Louis Business Journal.
805:"The LINC was Early and Small"
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1293:Bibliography Server
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