Barry Smith (ontologist)
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Barry Smith (born 4 June 1952) is Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the University at Buffalo (New York, USA) and Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Saarbrücken, Germany. He studied at Oxford University and at Manchester University, and has held faculty positions in Sheffield, Manchester, Liechtenstein and Leipzig, as well as visiting positions in Erlangen, Graz, Paris, Turku, Innsbruck, Padua, Hamburg, Konstanz, Malta, Leiden, Vienna and Koblenz.
He is the author of some 400 scientific publications, including 15 authored or edited books, and editor of The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry. His research has been funded by 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 2.2 Million Euro Wolfgang Paul Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Smith's current research focus is ontology and its applications in biomedicine and biomedical informatics, where he is working on a variety of projects relating to biomedical terminologies and electronic health records. He is also collaborating with Hernando de Soto, Director of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru, on the ontology of property rights and social development.
[edit] External links
- Introduction to ontology, includes video: How to build an ontology
- Barry Smith's faculty page at the University of Buffalo
- Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science
- The OBO Foundry
- Basic Formal Ontology
- Barry Smith: Lecture on Austrian Economics; New Media, UFM
- Barry Smith: Ontology of Services and Commodities; New Media, UFM
- The legacy of Edmund Husserl - Barry Smith; New Media, UFM
