Background
Kohout, Ladislav Jan was born on January 22, 1941 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Ladislav Kohout and Ruzena Kohoutova.
Kohout, Ladislav Jan was born on January 22, 1941 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Son of Ladislav Kohout and Ruzena Kohoutova.
Diploma in Electrical Engineering with distinction, Czech Technology University, Prague, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy, University of Essex, United Kingdom, 1977.
Research assistant Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, 1961—1963. Department head of hardware group Institute of Physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, 1965—1967. Department head, computing center Institute of Astronomy, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Ondrejov Observatory, Czech Republic.
Assistant professor bio-medical computing Medical School, University College, London, 1974—1979. Associate professor Brunel University, 1983—1985, reader, 1985—1988. Professor computer science Florida State University, Tallahassee, since 1988.
Board directors International Institute for Systems Research and Cybernetics, Windsor, Canada, since 1984. Member of the board of directors Association for Intelligence Machinery, Durham, North Carolina, since 1997.
Member of Czech Association to the Club of Rome (honorary).
Married Isabel Maria Stabile, October 3, 1987. Children: Eva Maria, Peter Jan, James Wyllis.