2/18/2004
Gio
AAAS 04
9
Trust and
Security in Biological Databases: Brief Biography
Security when Collaborating; Gio Wiederhold, Stanford
University, CA
Gio Wiederhold
is an emeritus professor of Computer Science, Medicine and Electrical Engineering at Stanford
University. Since 1976 he has supervised 33 PhD theses in these
departments. Currently Gio is
continuing part time at Stanford and consulting. He still has seminars on
Business on the Internet and and on Genome databases. Research being disseminated includes privacy protection
in collaborative settings, large-scale
software composition, enabling interoperation
of semantically heterogeneous information systems, including simulations for projecting outcomes. His
consulting now focuses on valuation of
intellectual property inherent in software.
Gio Wiederhold
was born in Italy, received a degree in Aeronautical Engineering in Holland in 1957 and a PhD in Medical
Information Science from the University of
California at San Francisco in 1976. Prior to his
academic career he spent 16 years in the software industry. Wiederhold has authored and coauthored more than 350
publications and reports on computing
and medicine. He spent 1991-1994 in Washington as a program manager at DARPA. Wiederhold has
been elected fellow of the ACMI, the
IEEE, and the ACM. His web page is http://www-db.stanford.edu/people/gio.html.
Information
about protection the release of private information can be found at
http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/gio/TIHI/TIHI.html
