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Barry Smith

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Barry Smith is Julian Park Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University at Buffalo and Research Director of the Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science (IFOMIS). He is also PI for Dissemination and Ontology Best Practices at the National Center for Biomedical Ontology (NCBO) and editor of The Monist: An International Quarterly Journal of General Philosophical Inquiry. The author of some 450 scientific publications, including 15 authored or edited books, Smith's research has been funded by the US, Swiss, and Austrian National Science Foundations, the National Institutes of Health, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union. In 2002, in recognition of his scientific achievements, he received the Wolfgang Paul Award from 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. Education Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Manchester, 1976 M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University, 1977: First Class Honours B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University, 1973: First Class Honours

Julian Park

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

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