In the 1960s, worked with a team that developed “small” computers, the forerunners of today’s PC’s.

Strategic Planning for Growth Networks Inc. is a company commercializing technology developed at the Applied Research Laboratory and licensed by Washington University to the company. Dr. Cox’s research interests include the application of computers to biomedicine and advanced computer networking. He led groups that developed the first radiation treatment planning system that utilized computer graphics, the first computer-based monitoring system for cardiac arrhythmias, and the first computer imaging system for nuclear medicine.

More recently he has collaborated with colleagues in the Department of Radiology in the emerging field of electronic radiology. He founded the Biomedical Computer Laboratory at Washington University and chaired the newly formed Department of Computer Science (1975-1991). He was director of the Applied Research Laboratory and was research director of the Electronic Radiology Laboratory. He has published over 100 scientific papers in computing and networking and has been active on various advisory committees for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science.