Personal Information, Gio Wiederhold (original) (raw)

Go to Personal; Education; Professional Experience; Publications; Research;Innovations; Consulting; Honors.

Email gio@cs.stanford.edu.

ADDRESSES:

Home

• Opera Plaza [view: looking south; SF access map]
• 601 Van Ness Ave #749
• San Francisco CA 94102;
• 415 775-8362 / backup 775-8363

Studio - Consulting

• Opera Plaza [SF access map]
• 601 Van Ness Ave #748
• San Francisco CA 94102;
• 415 775-8363 / fax & backup 674-8363

SST Office

1. 157 Marine Road [view: with gio and voy]; [cottage: snowy winter of 1998];
2. Woodside CA 94062 (do not use for mail)
3. 415 851-8363

House in the Woods (now for rent)

1. location sketch 155 Marine Road
2. pictures for browsing.

Matadero Ave. (rented)

Front, Rear unit, street,CALTRAINs.

Project

• 145 6th Avenue [view: looking north west, olive green building with black trim, was all beige;
• San Francisco CA 94118
• 415 221-8363

PERSONAL:

• Born June 24, 1936 in Varese, Italy.
• United States citizen.
• Various security clearances.
• Married to Voy Yat Jew, July 30, 1966.
• Two children, John A. (pictures)
• and Randy Y.(pictures)
• and grandchildren Evan (2002), Voy holding Anni (2003), Anni, being admired by Evan and fathers,Eli (2005), and Zoë (2005). All four (2005).
• Ancestors.

EDUCATION:

1954-1957

• TMS Technicum, Rotterdam, Holland
• C.Ae. cum laude in Aeronautical Engineering (equiv. to B.S.) 1957-1958
• THS Delft, Delft, Holland
• Graduate work in Aeronautics
• Assistantship in the Laboratory for Electronic Music 1960-1964
• University of California at Berkeley
• Course work in heuristic programming, compiler design, recursive programming, lambda calculus 1973-1976
• University of California, San Francisco
• Ph.D. in Medical Information Science; Thesis: "A Methodology for the Design of Medical Database Systems" 2003, November
• London Business School, London, UK
• Financial Seminar for Senior Managers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

1976-current

• Professor Emeritus, Depts. of Computer Science, and, by courtesy, Medicine and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (Courses).
• 1996-1999 Participant in the Stanford Computer Industry Project (SCIP) of the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
• Supervised 36 completed PhD student theses .
• Research: Design and operation of Large-Scale Software Systems. Design of databases, knowledge bases, distributed systems and applications in medicine, planning, and business. Privacy and Security. 2000 (April-July) Sabbatical at Visiting Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. 1996-present
• CEO, Symmetric Security Technologies (www.2ST.com). 1961-present
• Private Consultant ( contract) to industry ( client listing).
• Expertise: Database Use and Design. Information System Design, Effectiveness, Maintenance, and Security. System Evaluation. Software IP Valuation 1991-1994
• On assignment to ARPA, DoD (Department of Defense) as Program Manager, Knowledge-based Systems, ARPA-SISTO. 1987 (5 mos.)
• Guest Research Investigator, IBM Deutschland, Stuttgart FRG. 1974-1975
• Project Manager, University of California, San Francisco, Office of Medical Information Systems, for "Evaluation of Automated Ambulatory Medical Records Systems". 1971-1973
• Staff Consultant, Stanford University Hospital, Depts. of Immunology and of Community Medicine and Family Practice, Stanford Medical School. 1970
• Manager of System Design, MASCOR - Multi-Access Systems Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA. 1969-1970
• Director of Program and Terminal Development, INDEX Division of Reeves Telecom Corporation, New York and Belmont, CA. 1965-1969
• Director of ACME (Advanced Computer for Medical Research) and Associate Director of the Real-time Facility, Computation Center, Stanford University. 1964-1965
• Visiting Professor, IIT Kanpur, India (KIAP consortium, sponsored by US AID and UC Berkeley). 1961-1965
• Head of Programming, Computer Center, University of California, Berkeley, CA. 1958-1961
• Programmer and Senior Programmer, IBM Service Bureau Corp., New York and San Jose, CA. 1958
• Technical Assistant, SHAPE Air Defense Technical Center, NATO The Hague, Holland. summer 1955
• Machinist's mate, MS Trito, Dutch Merchant Marine.

Innovations:

In these functions Gio led the development of projects which resulted in a number of innovations. They are documented in detail in hispublications. The dates refer to the initial effort, proposal or specification.

• Numerical methods for computing the power (specific impulse) of solid rocket fuel combustion (1959).
• Inserting alphabetic I/O capability into FORTRAN compilers (1960).
• An incremental compiling technology, which permits a flexibility close to interpreted code, while running at high speed (1962).
• Real-time data-acquisition control and data analysis using coupled computers for clinical research (1965).
• Transposed storage for databases for very-high speed on-line analytical processing (1970).
• Creation of knowledge-base technology exploiting artificial intelligence concepts to provide intelligent and efficient access to databases (1977).
• Rapid presentation of databased information for personal computing (1982 - industrial work).
• Model-based transformation of relational database information into object-oriented representations (1986).
• The architectural concepts leading to mediators (1990).
• Initiation of the Intelligent Integration of Information program at DARPA. A very visible component is the Digital Library effort, delegated then to NSF, which has opened up new Internet application fields, and funded projects such as Google (1993).
• A means to protect outgoing private information in practical databases used for collaboration (1995).
• Means to integrate projections into the future into information systems -- SimQL (1996).
• The development of a very-high-level language for software composition (1997).
• An approach to scalable semantic interoperation via an ontology algebra (1998).
• Introduction of `Writing for the Web' as a course component to introduce students to writing approaches that are suitable for modern information access methods (2004).
• A method to value software intangibles based on balancing initial and maintenance efforts to allocate income (2005).

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI, 1987-1997)
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, since 1967)
• American Association for Medical Informatics (AMIA, since 1982)
• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, since 1974-1990)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, since 1960)
• American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA, 1961-1990)
• ASTM Section 13 Standards Development (1985-1988)
• Combustion Institute (1960-1990)
• IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS, since 1966)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, since 1985)
• The Institute of Management Science (TIMS, 1975-1989)

Publications:

List of over 400 papers and reports.

Many important papers are available to net browsers.

Research Activities:

A listing of research investigatorships held.

Teaching Activities

A listing of courses taught.

A listing of student theses supervised.

Consulting Activities

A partial listing of consulting performed.

My standard consulting contract.
Since 2003 I am no longer available for commercial consulting because of conflict-of-interest concerns.

HONORS and APPOINTMENTS:

• 1968 Who's Who in America.
• 1974-1976 National Library of Medicine Fellowship.
• 1980-1984 Member, Health Care Technology Study Section, HRA-DHSS.
• 1981-1986 Chairman of the Board, Pacific Software, Berkeley.
• 1981-1984 Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Computer Society.
• 1982 Program Chairman, IEEE Computer Society 2nd Symposium. on Reliability in Distributed Software and Database Systems.
• 1982-1986 Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Computer Magazine.
• 1985-1990 Member, Editorial Board, IEEE Expert Magazine.
• 1980-1983 Member, Panel to Study the Conduct of Basic Research in Computer Science and its Interaction with Applied Research and Development, NRC, National Academy of Science.
• 1982-1985 Member, Committee on Data Management and Computation, Space Sciences Board, NRC, National Academy of Science.
• 1982 Member, Data for Development International, Marseille, France.
• 1983-2001 Advisory Editor, M.D. Computing, Springer Verlag.
• 1984-1986 Chairman, Vice Chairman (1983), Executive Committee of the IEEE-CS Technical Committee on Database Engineering.
• 1984-1986 Program Co-Chairman, Program Chairman, General Chairman, IEEE Computer Society Data Engineering Conferences.
• 1984 Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI).
• 1984 Service award, IEEE Computer Society for contributions to the Centennial Issue.
• 1984 Zertifikat, Medizinischer Informatiker, GDMS Koln and GI Bonn.
• 1985-1988 Advisory Committee Massachussets Inst. of Technology, Idaho National Energy Lab. Program.
• 1986 Who's Who in Artificial Intelligence.
• 1986-1999 IFIP Working Group 2.6 of Technical Commitee 2 for Data Models; continuing as Honorary Member.
• 1982-1992 Associate Editor, Editor-in-Chief, ACM TODS (Transactions on Database Systems).
• 1988 Group leader for 'Data Management and Access' Workshop to Develop Recommendations for the National Scientific Effort on AIDS Modeling and Epidemiology.
• 1988-1990 Member, Panel to Study the Computing Options for the Social Security System for the Year 2000, NRC, Nat.Acad. of Science.
• 1988-1991 Scientific Advisory Council, Foundation for Knowledge-Based Systems, The Netherlands.
• 1988 Medal of the University, University of Helsinki, Finland.
• 1988-2001 External Advisory Board, GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany.
• 1989-1998 ACM Publications Board, focusing on copyright and the digital library.
• 1990-2005 Advisory Committee, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers, Japan.
• 1990-1991 Chairman, DoCommerce-JTEC Japanese Technology in Databases Assessment study.
• 1990-1995 Advisory panel, ARPA-Rome Laboratory Planning initiative.
• 1991 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(IEEE).
• 1991, May Erdos number 3, by publishing with Sushil Jajodia, 1987 <-- Yechezkel Zalcstein 1989, 1993 <-- Paul Erdos. All my coauthors are now Erdos 4 or less.
• 1992-1998 Member, ACM Publications Board, for electronic publishing.
• 1993 Recipient, ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award.
• 1993-1996 Board of Directors, National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis.
• 1994-present Member, Cosmos Club, Washington DC.
• 1994-2002 Member, Bioinfomatics Advisory Board, SmithKline-Beecham, London, GB, and Philadelphia PA
• 1994-1995 Member, Committee on Stanford Administrative Computing (C-SAC)
• 1995 Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• 1995 Stanford University Information Architecture Review Board.
• 1995 Visiting member, U.S. Air Force, Scientific Advisory Board, Information Technology.
• 1995-1999 Technical Advisory Board, Advanced Distributed Simulation. Inst.for Defense Analysis.
• 1995-1998 Technical Advisory Board, National Industrial Information Infrastructure Program (NIIIP).
• 1995-1998 Faculty member, Stanford Computer Industry Project, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
• 1995-1996 Member, Committee for Materials and Processes Research and the Information Highway, National Research Council, Washington DC.
• 1996-continuing Golden Core Member, IEEE Computer Society.
• 1996 -1999 Technical Advisory Board, NIST Consortium for Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing PLanning and EXecution (CIIMPLEX).
• 1996-1997 Program committee, CODATA/NIST National Conference on Data Integration and Data Exchange for Scientific and Technical Data, Dec 1997.
• 1996 Member, Program Committee VLDB-96, Bombay, Sept.3-6.
• 1997-2001 Member, New York Academy of Sciences.
• 1997-2003 Member, Technical Advisory Board, Center voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• 1998, 1999, 2001 Member, review committees, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 2000-2009 Member, Computer Science Department Advisory Board, Technical University, Munich, Germany.
• 2001 Visiting Member, Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, Panel on Database Migration.
• 2002-current Member, International Advisory Board, Elsevier Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web journal, see thefactsheet. <li) 2003="" reviewer,="" nsf="" itr="" medium="" proposals,="" nsf.<="" li=""> <li) 2004="" member,="" panel="" on="" the="" fbi="" trilogy="" system,="" national="" research="" council,="" nas.<="" li=""> <li) 2004-2005="" member,="" advisory="" board,="" l3s="" research="" center,="" hannover,="" germany.<="" li=""> <li) 2004-2005="" member,="" panel="" on="" data="" integration="" for="" fema,="" national="" research="" council,="" nas.<="" li=""> <li) 2005,="" june="" program="" recognition="" award="" from="" the="" mitre="" `irs="" expert="" program',="" for="" assistance="" in="" international="" intellectual="" property="" valuation="" cases.<="" li="">
• 2005-2011 Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Lower Saxony Learning Center, Technical University, Hannover, Germany.
• 2008, February CiteSeer Citation count Computer Science = 2672 (2666 wiederhold -21 (not me) +29 Weiderhold -2 (not me) )
• 2008, February Google Scholar Citation count All areas = 9259 (8868 G Wiederhold + 391 G Weiderhold)
• 2008-current National Associate, National Research Council of the National Academies.
• 2011, June Doctor of Science honoris causa, National University of Ireland, Galway.
• 2011-current, U.S. representative for the Armstrong Siddeley branch of the Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust.
• 2015, June Distinguished Alumnus, University Of California, San Francisco, 150th anniversary celebration.
• 2015, August Fellow of the Information Reuse Institute (IRI).
• 2020 Top 2% in Elseviers Mendeley credentials list from SRI. </li)></li)></li)></li)></li)>