Ben Rubinstein
Ben has a degree in Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence from Sussex University. After briefly working on real-time expert systems, he returned to Sussex to help develop the first graphical user interface system for their artificial intelligence programming environment POPLOG. Ben joined Cogapp in 1987, and became technical director in time to help establish the new direction of the company towards hypertext and multimedia.
Since then Ben has been responsible for the company's technical development. He was the chief architect and lead developer of Cogapp’s proprietary multimedia technology, used at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the National Gallery, London and many other institutions, and licensed to Microsoft to deliver numerous CD-ROMs, some of which are still in print and regularly updated. He established Cogapp’s publishing system, and led the development of the online collection systems at the National Portrait Gallery, London and Cleveland Museum of Art. He was also instrumental in creating MoMA.guide, the ground-breaking interactive installation for the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
More recently Ben laid the groundwork for Cogapp's approach to the major new website at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and has been part of the team developing Cogapp's system for reference applications on mobile platforms, which is delivering ten apps for Dorling Kindersley in 2011. Ben's work on these and other projects displays his continued commitment to finding new ways for organisations to exploit digital technology to better serve their public audiences.
