Almaden Institute

Moderator: Privacy-Aware Data Management   Gio Wiederhold - Bio  Gio Wiederhold  Emeritus Professor, Computer Science, Medicine, and Electrical Engineering  Stanford University  Gio@cs.stanford.edu Web Sites www-db.stanford.edu/people/gio.html Biography Gio Wiederhold is an emeritus professor of Computer Science, Medicine and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Since 1976, he has supervised 33 Ph.D. theses in these departments. Currently Gio is continuing half time at Stanford and consulting. Current research includes privacy protection in collaborative settings, large-scale software composition, and interoperation of semantically heterogeneous information systems, including simulations for projecting outcomes. Wiederhold was born in Italy, received a degree in Aeronautical Engineering in Holland in 1957 and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Science from the University of California at San Francisco in 1976. Prior to his academic career, he spent 16 years in the software industry, including IBM from 1958—1960. Wiederhold has authored and coauthored more than 350 publications and reports on computing and medicine. He has been elected fellow of the ACMI, the IEEE, and the ACM.