Home / About NAG / People of NAG / Malcolm Cohen

Malcolm Cohen, Principal Technical Consultant

Malcolm Cohen, Principal Technical Consultant, began his career at NAG in 1984 as a Software Engineer. He was promoted to Senior Technical Consultant in 1996 and then to his current position in 1998.

Malcolm has extensive experience in all stages of software development from requirement analysis, through design and development, to maintenance and user support. He is internationally recognised as an expert in the Fortran language. Malcolm single-handedly wrote the world's first Fortran 90 compiler in 1990-1991, which was subsequently released by NAG in September 1991. Malcolm is an expert programmer in C and Fortran and has knowledge of a wide range of other languages.

Malcolm has written many articles that have been published in various global programming journals and more recently co-authored the book "Fortran 95/2003 Explained" with John Reid and Michael Metcalf.

Malcolm gained a Bsc (Hons) in Computer Science from the Australian National University and is a member of the international working group on Fortran, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG5, since 1988, and the USA technical subcommittee on Fortran, J3, since 1994.