[3] His work in the intersection of computer artificial intelligence and painting lead to exhibitions at many museums, including the Tate Gallery in London.

[4] Cohen was born in London, the son of Polish-Russian Jewish parents, and was educated there at the Slade School of Fine Art.

He was later given the rank of professor and stayed at UC San Diego for nearly three decades; part of the time as chairman of the Visual Arts Department.

In previous AARON projects, images would be outputted in physical form before Cohen made alterations.

[12] He initially wrote AARON in the C programming language but eventually converted to Lisp, citing that C was "too inflexible, too inexpressive, to deal with something as conceptually complex as color.