Gio Wiederhold

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)

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 his publications. 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 the factsheet.

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.