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Gio(vanni) Corrado Melchiore Wiederhold
Gio Wiederhold
Born (1936-06-24) June 24, 1936 (age 88)
Varese, Italy
CitizenshipAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, San Francisco
AwardsIEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, Fellow of the ACMI
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsStanford University
Doctoral advisorJohn Amsden Starkweather
Doctoral studentsJulie Basu, Robert Blum, James Brinkley, Ronald Burback, Sang Cha, James Davidson, Ramez El-Masri, Hector Garcia-Molina, Erik Gilbert, Waqar Hasan, Jan Jannink, Arthur Keller, Jonathan King, Charles Koo, Ricardo Kortas, Gloria Lau, Byung Suk Lee, David Liu, Toshimi Minoura, Prasenjit Mitra, Joseph Norman, Edwin Pednault, Xiaolei Qian, Peter Rathmann, Neil Rowe, Shaibal Roy, Neal Sample, David E. Shaw, John Shoch, Arun Swami, James Z. Wang, Kyu Young Whang, Marianne Winslett, Linda deMichiel

Gio Wiederhold (born June 24, 1936) is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, with courtesy appointments in Medicine and Electrical Engineering. His research focuses on large-scale systems design and evolution, specifically applied to information systems, the protection of their content, often using knowledge-based techniques. He has authored and coauthored more than 400 published papers and reports on computing and medicine and has served as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODS and as a program manager at DARPA. At DARPA (1991-1994) Gio initiated the I3 program.

His breakthrough papers on the data semantic interoperability are at the origin of the modern service-oriented architecture and the XML proposed in 1992.

Career innovations

Gio Wiederhold's career focus changed along with computing capabilities.

  • Computations of short-range missile trajectories at NATO's Air Defense Technical Center (SADTC) in Wassenaar near The Hague (1958).
  • Numerical methods for computing the power (specific impulse) of solid rocket fuel combustion at IBM's Service Bureau Corporation, sponsored by DARPA (1959).
  • Inserting alphabetic I/O capability into FORTRAN compilers to allow output of chemical equations, also at IBM's Service Bureau Corporation (1960).
  • An incremental compiling technology, which permits a flexibility close to interpreted code, while running at high speed at the UC Berkeley (1962) and Stanford Medical School (1965).
  • Real-time data-acquisition control and data analysis using coupled computers for clinical research, also at Stanford Medical School (1966).
  • Transposed storage for databases for very-high speed on-line analytical processing, at Stanford Medical School (1970).
  • An extensive study of Computerized Ambulatory Health Care Systems, an appendix to Gio's PhD dissertation (1976)
  • A text book on quantitative Database Design[1], McGraw Hill (1977, 1988).
  • Creation of knowledge-base technology exploiting artificial intelligence concepts to provide intelligent and efficient access to databases (KBMS) at Stanford University's Computer Science department (1977).
  • Rapid presentation of database information for personal computing at VisiCorp (1982).
  • Model-based transformation of relational database information into object-oriented representations (1986).
  • The architectural concepts leading to mediators (1990).
  • The development of a very-high-level Megaprogramming[2] language for software composition (1992).
  • Initiation of the Intelligent Integration of Information (I3) program at DARPA. A very visible component is the Digital Library effort, which was delegated to NSF; the research 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[3] (1995).
  • Means to integrate projections into the future into information systems—SimQL[4] (1996).
  • An approach to scalable semantic interoperation via an ontology algebra[5] (1998).
  • A method to value software intangibles based on balancing initial and maintenance efforts to allocate income [6](2005).

Gio and Voy Wiederhold maintain in cooperation with the Computer History Museum in Mountain View the Historical Exhibits[7] in Stanford's Computer Science Building.

References

  1. ^ http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/gio/dbd/
  2. ^ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=138853&coll=ACM&dl=ACM
  3. ^ http://www.csl.sri.com/papers/dexagio/
  4. ^ http://www.springerlink.com/content/h9445637446u6177/
  5. ^ http://www.springerlink.com/content/mdebqfhphhtk51l1/?p=8c33fbfc4bac48eabf0419f83080c9d7&pi=1
  6. ^ http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1151030.1151031&coll=ACM&dl=ACM&CFID=12748989&CFTOKEN=67583327
  7. ^ http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum.html
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