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Barry Smith
Barry
Smith is a prominent contributer to both theoretical and applied
research in ontology. He is the author of some 450 scientific
publications on ontology and related topics, and his research has been
funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US, Swiss and Austrian
National Science Foundations, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the
European Union. In 2002 he received in recognition of his scientific
achievements the Wolfgang Paul Award of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation. Smith is
SUNY Distinguished Professor and holder of the Julian Park Chair of
Philosophy in the University at Buffalo (New York, USA). He is also Research
Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science
in Saarbrücken, Germany. He studied at Oxford and Manchester, and has held
faculty positions in Sheffield, Manchester, Liechtenstein and Leipzig. He is
the editor of The Monist: An International
Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry. Smith’s
primary research focus is the application of ontology in biomedicine and
biomedical informatics. He is one of the principal scientists in the National
Center for Biomedical Ontology and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board
of the Gene Ontology Consortium.
He also collaborates with Hernando de Soto, Director of the Institute for
Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru, on the ontology of property rights and
social development. Recent Publications Smith B, Ceusters W, Klagges B, et al. Relations in biomedical ontologies. Genome Biology,
2005; 6(5): R46. Smith B, Ceusters W, Kumar A, Rosse C. On carcinomas and other pathological entities, Comparative
and Functional Genomics, 2005;6(7/8):379-387. Smith B. From concepts to clinical reality: an essay on the
benchmarking of biomedical terminologies,
Journal of Biomedical Informatics,
2006;39(3):288-298. Smith B,
Ashburner M, Rosse C, et al. The OBO Foundry: Coordinated evolution of ontologies to support
biomedical data integration, Nature Biotechnology 2007; 25
(11): 1251-1255. For further
information see http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith |
