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Biography of Ken Kahn

Ken Kahn, founder and president of Animated Programs and author of ToonTalk, has over 30 years of research, engineering, and programming experience. In addition to his roles at Animated Programs, Kahn currently has positions at the Institute of Education's London Knowledge Lab and the Royal Institute of Technology where he is contributing the European WebLabs Project. Kahn was a visiting scholar at Stanford University from 1992 to 1997 and has also served on editorial boards of several computer science journals, as well as on the program committee of many scientific conferences. Kahn has served as a researcher/consultant for organizations such as: IBM, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Xerox PARC, Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (Tokyo), Rand Corporation, Atari Research, Syracuse University and Citicorp. Kahn has also authored chapters of many books, published over 50 articles and earned a patent for animated user interfaces for computer program creation, control, and execution. At Uppsala University, Kahn was an associate professor and lectured on artificial intelligence. Kahn also lectured at the University of Stockholm and MIT.

Kahn earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from University of Pennsylvania, his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He now enjoys living in Oxford, England.

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