BarrySmith

= Barry Smith =

Director, National Center for Ontological Research, and Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Neurology, Professor of Computer Science, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA.

Research Director, Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany.

see:


 * http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith
 * http://x.co/sMk3 (Google Scholar)
 * http://ncor.us
 * http://ifomis.org

Bio
Barry Smith is the author of some 500 scientific publications, including 25 authored or edited books. He is also editor of The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry. His research has been funded by the US, Swiss and Austrian National Science Foundations, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Volkswagen Foundation, the German Ministry of Health, and the European Union. In 2002 he received in recognition of his scientific achievements the 2.2 Million Euro Wolfgang Paul Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Smith’s current research focus is ontology and its applications, especially in biomedicine and biomedical informatics, including a variety of projects relating to biomedical terminologies and electronic health records. He is one of the Coordinating Editors of the OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry project, details of which are provided here:


 * http://obofoundry.org
 * http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v25/n11/full/nbt1346.html

He also maintains a blog pertaining to the use and misuse of information models in the medical domain:
 * http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/

He initiated the Ontology for the Intelligence Community (now: Semantic Technology for Intelligence Defense and Security) conference series. has worked on a number of US Army sponsored projects, including creating the Universal Core Semantic Layer with Lowell Vizenor and Jim Schoening:
 * http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-555/paper5.pdf

See also:


 * Professor Barry Smith's Ontolog Invited Speaker presentation entitled: "How to Do Things with Paper: The Ontology of Documents and the Technologies of Identification" at: ConferenceCall_2005_10_13
 * Professor Smith's presentation at the 15-Mar-2006 UpperOntologySummit: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpperOntologySummitMeeting_2006_03_15#nidL78
 * Professor Smith's invited talk on "Ontology Evaluation in Biomedicine: The OBO Foundry Initiative" for the OntologyMeasurementEvaluation mini-series at: ConferenceCall_2006_12_21