13 Facts About Gio Wiederhold

Giovanni Corrado Melchiore Wiederhold was an Italian-born American computer scientist who spent most of his career at Stanford University.

Gio Wiederhold's research focused on the design of large-scale database management systems, the protection of their content, often using knowledge-based techniques.

Gio Wiederhold was born June 24,1936, in Varese, Italy.

Gio Wiederhold integrated knowledge base technology exploiting artificial intelligence concepts to provide intelligent and efficient access to databases which he called KBMS.

Gio Wiederhold authored a text book on quantitative aspects of database management systems, first published by McGraw-Hill in 1977.

In 1995 the copyright was transferred to Gio Wiederhold, who published an expanded version of the book in 2001.

Gio Wiederhold published a book on file organization for databases in 1987.

From 1991 through 1994 Gio Wiederhold served as a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Gio Wiederhold initiated the DARPA Intelligent Integration of Information program.

Gio Wiederhold was named a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 1984, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1991, and fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1995.

Gio Wiederhold authored and coauthored more than 400 published papers and reports on computing and medicine and served as the associate editor or editor-in-chief of ACM's Transactions on Database Systems from 1982 to 1992.

In June 2011, Gio Wiederhold was awarded an honorary doctorate by NUI Galway.

Gio Wiederhold died on December 26,2022, at the age of 86.