Barry Smith
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and
Julian Park Chair
Ph.D., Manchester
Director, National Center for Ontological Research
Affiliate Professor, Biomedical Informatics,
Affiliate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
Affiliate Professor, Neurology
Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI)
Contact Information:
105 Park Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-4150
Phone: (716) 650-0075
Email: phismith@buffalo.edu
Website: Barry Smith
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Area of Specialization and Current Research
Ontology
Courses
Applied Ontology (Fall 2018)
Ontological Engineering (online course, Spring 2018)
Advanced Biomedical Ontology (Fall 2017)
Applied Ontology 2017 (online course, Spring 2017)
Biomedical Ontology (Fall 2016)
Analytic Metaphysics (Spring 2016)
Selected Publications
- Erik Thomsen and Barry Smith, “Ontology-Based Fusion of Sensor Data and Natural Language”, Applied Ontology, 13 (4), 2018, 295-333
- Sanchita Bhattacharya, Patrick Dunn, Cristel Thomas, Barry Smith, et al., “ImmPort: Toward repurposing of open access immunological assay data for translational and clinical research”, Scientific Data, 5, 2018.
- Andrew Spear, Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, "Functions in Basic Formal Ontology", Applied Ontology, 11, 2016.
- Robert Arp, Barry Smith, Andrew Spear, Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015.
- Barry Smith, "Document Acts", in A. Konzelmann-Ziv, H. B. Schmid (eds.), Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents. Contributions to Social Ontology (Philosophical Studies Series) Dordrecht: Springer, 2014, 19-31.