Gio Wiederhold

Professor (Emeritus) of Computer Science, Medicine, and Electrical Engineering.

, advocates liberal access (see below), but takes no responsibility for use.

Computer Science Department, (InfoLab; ([pictures])
Gates Computer Science Bldg. 4A, room 447, 353 Jane Stanford Way;
Stanford University
Stanford CA 94305-9040
tel: +650 723-0872; cell+415 999-6103
email to: wiederhold@cs.stanford.edu.
secretary: Marianne Siroker
Gates Computer Science Bldg. 4A, room 443
email to: siroker@cs.stanford.edu.

Participant in the
• Computer Systems Lab (CSL)
• CAMIS Section for Medical informatics
• Center for Integrated Facility Engineering (CIFE) of the Civil Engineering Department.
• Knowledge Systems Lab (KSL)

Personal Information.

(Addresses, Education; Professional Experience; Research; Papers; Students; Consulting; Innovations; and Honors)

Gio Wiederhold retired from full-time active academic service June 2001, but remains quite busy with fun projects and research outside of the University. He stopped teaching regulariy as of 2015. He will not advise students on a regular basis.

Classes

Student thesis reading and project supervision. Directed course Section Ids are 17(CS) and 65(EE).

Past classes, none offered anymore:
CS207 The Economics of Software, with Vishal Sikka (CEO of Infosys). 2 units, met Fridays 10:00am - 11:50am, in Hewlett 102. The class focuses on what happens with software and related intellectual property once it is ready to enter the marketplace. Material from Gio Wiederhold: Valuing Intellectual Capital; Springer 2014, was used. CS207 combines course-style lectures with more outside experts for discussion.
Last year's information is accessible at the CS207 wiki. It was updated during the course as needed. Prior course information.
CS73N Freshman Seminar: Business on the Internet, led by Avron Barr and Shirley Tessler. The class was last given Spring 2013/2014
Large-scale Software Engineering: CS 446, prior years.
C545G Genome Databases Seminar, presented by Dr. Peter Karp (PKarp@ai.sri.com).

Research competence:

Current Research

Research undertaken after my formal retirement focuses on valuation of the intangibles inherent in software after it has been developed, and the relationships of software maintenance in the retention of its effectiveness and value. Most applications are related to offshoring.

Published results are listed in my publication list.

Past Research Projects and Activities

revolved around Large-scale Interoperation, Mediation, and Composition (LIC).

For instance:

• Managing ontologies in the context of the Semantic Web. A major project is the OntoAgents, a project under Stefan Decker's guidance within DARPA's DAML effort. An earlier project, being integrated with OntoAgents is Scalable Knowledge Composition (SKC), supported by AFOSR, which is developing an Ontology Algebra to assure scalability in the interoperation of many, heterogeneous resources.
• Compiling High-level Access Interfaces for Multi-site Software (CHAIMS), initially supported by DARPA ITO in the EDCS program, and now continued with support from ORD and CIFE.
• Access to and Formalization of Building Regulations, Supported by NSF ITR, at CIFE, Dept. of Civil Engineering. See REGNET, under direction of Professor Kincho Law, CIFE.
• Protection of Privacy in Collaborative Settings. The novel concept is symmetric protection of access and release of information.
  Earlier work, now in technology transition state, developed security mediators for Trusted Interoperation of Healthcare Information and Secure Access Wrappers (SAW) for manufacturing data.
  
• Research in privacy protection provided checking the contents of images (TID). This work is carried out under the aegis of the NSF Digital Library II initiative.
  This latter task relates to our general research into the processing and content-based retrieval of image data, stored in on-line Digital Libraries.
• Application of mediating and security technologies in a repository, PharmGKB, to document linkages of phenotypic observations in patient populations to genotypic findings.
• A Simulation Access Language (SimQL) enabling integration and reuse of simulations within information systems. While I am not active in this area nopw, I still believe it will be a fruitful new area for future research and application.
• A meta issue for all these efforts is improving the transition of technology into practice, which is best accomplished through early engagement and support to companies who can help in development and then serve as demonstration and transfer sites to end-users.

Publications:

In 2022 I self-published a draft of my autobiography Moving On, wich I will continue to update.

A book that explains and analyzes quantitatively the valuation of intellectual property and the resulting controversies in taxation of high-technology companies as Apple, Google, etc., by their use of tax havens: Gio Wiederhold: Valuing Intellectual Capital, Multinationals and Taxhavens ; series Management for Professionals, Springer Verlag, New York, August 2013, also available as an eBook. Pointers and background resources.

Many recent or important papers, as well as many viewgraphs, are available free via the ACM Digital Library or directly to net browsers. An up-to-date list of all my papers is also available. A list of pointers to abstracts for presentations is also available.

Research bibliographies I collected of current and past (pre 1991) work by others related to my interests are also available.

I keep accessible some work-in-progress, not for general distribution. My general policy is that readers are free to peruse all my files that are not specifically access protected, but if material is used, I request that appropriate credit is given.

Gio also participates, with Voy, in setting up educational Computer Exhibits for the Computer Science Department in the Gates building. We update the exhibits on an incremental basis. A photo tour, based on the exhibits as of July 1999, is now on-line. We are also building a forest of Stanford faculty student trees. There is also a related Stanford History wiki site. Suggestions are welcome.

Gio created around 1980 a Movie database {films, directors, actors, roles, remakes, studios} which has been been used for class projects as well as for fun. It has information on about 10 000 mainly classical or weird movies and their history.

Distinctions:

Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) of AMIA, 1984.
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 1992.
Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1995.
Honorary Doctor of Science (DSc), National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, 2011.

Other Honors.