1999	D.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis Thesis: Infomation Measures for Object Recognition Advisor: Michael I. Miller
1994	M.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
1993	B.S., Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis Minor: Computer Science

2004 - Present	Senior Research Scientist, FX Palo Alto Laboratory
2000 - 2004	Research Scientist Interactive Media Group Multimedia content analysis projects
1999 - 2000	Consulting Software Engineer, NetCapita, Inc. Development of internet videoconferencing software Technology transfered to Animetrics, Inc.
1998 - 1999	Research Assistant Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University Research on information theoretic analysis of computer vision
1996 - 1998	Research Assistant Center for Imaging Science, Washington University Research on signature variation in infrared object recognition
1995-1996	Programmer Analyst Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University Developed image processing software to expedite high-throughput genomic sequencing
1993 - 1995	Research Assistant ESSRL, Washington University Research on astronomical image processing

1998 - 1999	Boeing-McDonnell Foundation Fellowship
1995 - 1997	Office of Naval Research AASERT Fellowship
1989 - 1993	State of Missouri Bright Flight Scholarship
1989 - 1993	Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science Dean's Honorary Scholarship

M. Cooper.  Collective Media Annotation using Random Field Models.  Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing, pp. 337-343, 2007.

M. Cooper, T. Liu, and E. Rieffel.  Video Segmentation via Temporal Pattern Classification.  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 9(3):610-618, 2007.

M. Cooper, J. Foote, E. Pampalk, and G. Tzanetakis.  Audio Visualization for Music
Information Retrieval.  Computer Music Journal, 30(2):42-62, 2006. 

A. Girgensohn, F. Shipman, J. Adcock, M. Cooper, and L. Wilcox. Locating Information in Video by Browsing and Searching.  Interactive Video; Algorithms and Technologies. Hammoud, Riad (Ed.) Springer. pp. 207-224, 2006.

M. Cooper, J. Foote, A. Girgensohn, and L. Wilcox.  Temporal Event Clustering for Digital Photograph Collections.  ACM Trans. on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 1(3):269--288, 2005.

(more) complete publication list is here

Image classifying systems and methods
US Pat. 7327347 - Filed Dec 23, 2002 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Summarization of digital files
US Pat. 7284004 - Filed Oct 15, 2002 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

System and methods for the automatic extraction of audio excerpts
US Pat. 7260439 - Filed Nov 1, 2001 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Method for automatically producing music videos
US Pat. 7027124 - Filed Feb 28, 2002 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Systems and methods for the automatic segmentation and clustering of ordered information
US Pat. 6915009 - Filed Sep 7, 2001 - Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

19 pending patent applications as of 12/06: (more) complete list is here.

03.2008 Media Analysis and Visualization at FXPAL.  Kodak Research Labs Distinguished Lecture Series.  Rochester, NY.

03.2008 Visualizing Multimedia Structure.  Center for Imaging Science Weekly Seminar Series.  Rochester Institute of Technology.  Rochester, NY.

10.2007 Visualizing Multimedia Structure.  Graduate Seminar Series.  Dept. of Computer Science, San Francisco State Univeristy.  San Francisco, CA.

09.2007 Collective Media Annotation using Random Field Models.  IEEE Intl. Conf. on Semantic Computing, Irvine, CA.

(more) complete talks list is here

Technical Program Committee Member:
ACM-IEEE Joint Conf. on Digital Libraries 2009
WWW 2009
15th Intl. Multimedia Modeling Conference (MMM2009)
ACM Multimedia 2008
Third Intl. Conf. on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies 2008
ACM-IEEE Joint Conf. on Digital Libraries 2008
ACM Multimedia 2007
ACM Multimedia 2006 (Short Papers and Posters)

Journal Editorial Board:
Journal of Multimedia (JMM)

External Journal Reviewer:
Multimedia Systems Journal
Journal of Multimedia (JMM)
Machine Vision and Applications
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing
SPIE Optical Engineering
Journal of the Optical Society of America A

External Conference Reviewer:
ACM Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR) 2008
ACM Conference on Multimedia 2000-2007
WWW 2006
IEEE ICME 2006
ACM CHI 2006
Intl. Symposium on Music Information Retrieval 2003

Member:
ACM; SIGMM; SIGIR
IEEE; Computer Society; Signal Processing Society; Information Theory Society
SIAM
Tau Beta Pi