James Cooper

About me

James Cooper

Senior software engineer, Medical text and image analytics.


Research lab: Watson Research Center (Hawthorne)


I am a Senior Software Engineer in the Medical Text Analytics group. I have been concentrating on building client server user interfaces to enhance the use of our technology.

My expertise is in:

  • Design Patterns
  • Java
  • User interface design
  • Object-oriented Programming
  • Dojo
  • Java Server pages


Recent Publications



  1. A System for recognizing Organic Chemical Names United States Patent 20050065776
  2. A Medical Imaging Informatics Appliance, James W Cooper, Shahram Ebadollahi, Ellen Eide, Chalapathy Neti and Giridharan Iyengar. Presented at CARS 2008
  3. Discovery of Protein-Proton Interactions Using a Combination of Linguistic, Statistical and Graphical Information. James W Cooper and
    Aaron Kershenbaum BMC Bioinformatics, 6:143 (2005)

Recent Books Published



  1. C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial. Addison-Wesley, 2002 (also in Japanese and Chinese).
  2. Visual Basic Design Patterns: VB6 and VB.Net, Addison-Wesley, 2001 (also in Polish, Japanese and Chinese).
  3. Java Design Patterns: A Tutorial, Addison-Wesley, 2000 (also in Japanese, Polish and Korean)
  4. Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in Java 1.1, Ventana/Coriolis, 1997
  5. The Visual Basic Programmer’s Guide to Java, Ventana/Coriolis, 1996
  6. . Object Oriented Programming in Visual Basic, Pinnacle, 1995
  7. A Jump Start Course in C++ Programming, (with Richard B. Lam), Wiley-Interscience, 1994.
  8. Visual BASIC for DOS: Building Scientific and Technical Applications, Wiley-Interscience, 1993.
  9. Writing Scientific Programs Under the OS/2 Presentation Manager, Wiley-Interscience, 1990.
  10. Microsoft QuickBASIC for Scientists, Wiley-Interscience, 1988.
  11. The Laboratory Microcomputer, Wiley-Interscience, 1984.
  12. The Minicomputer in the Laboratory, 2nd edition, Wiley-Interscience, 1983.
  13. Introduction to Pascal for Scientists, Wiley-Interscience, 1981.
  14. Spectroscopic Techniques for Organic Chemists, Wiley-Interscience, 1980.
  15. The Minicomputer in the Laboratory, Wiley-Interscience, 1977







Last updated 26 Mar 2008

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