PhD, Philosophy, University of Manchester (1976)
MA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University (1975)
BA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University, 1st Class Joint Honors (1973)

• Ontology
• Intelligence Analysis

• Intelligence Analysis: A Crash Course (2019)
• 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)

• Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith, There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing testDownload pdf(397 KB), arXiv, 2019.
  
• Thomas Hagedorn, Barry Smith, Sundar Krishnamurty, Ian Grosse, Interoperability of disparate engineering domain ontologies using Basic Formal Ontology, Journal of Engineering Design 2019.
• Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, "Making AI Meaningful AgainDownload pdf(241 KB)", forthcoming in Synthese.
• 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 researchDownload pdf”, Scientific Data, 5, 2018.

Barry Smith is a prominent contributor to both theoretical and applied research in ontology, especially in the biomedical domain. He is the author of some 500 publications on ontology with some 30,000 citations. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the US, Swiss and Austrian National Science Foundations, the US Department of Defense, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the European Union. In 2002 he received the 2 million Euro Wolfgang Paul Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and in 2010 he was awarded the first Paolo Bozzi Prize in Ontology by the University of Turin.

Smith is SUNY Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Director of the National Center for Ontological Research in the University at Buffalo (UB). He is also Affiliate Professor in the UB Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science and Neurology.

Smith’s pioneering work on the science of ontology led to the formation of the OBO (Open Biomedical Ontologies) Foundry, a suite of resources designed to support information-driven research in biology and biomedicine. He is ontology lead for the NIAID ImmPort project, one of the principal scientists of the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, a Scientific Advisor to the Gene Ontology Consortium, and a PI on the Protein Ontology and Infectious Disease Ontology projects. 

Since 2009 Smith has also served as ontology consultant to Hernando de Soto of the Institute of Liberty and Democracy (ILD) supporting the work of the ILD on creating modern legal frameworks that help the poor of the developing and ex-communist world access property and business rights.

Employment Background

• Distinguished Professor, Philosophy, University at Buffalo (1994-present)
• Professor, International Academy for Philosophy, Liechtenstein (1989–1994)
• Professor, Philosophy, University of Manchester, United Kingdom (1979–1989)
• Post Doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom (1976–1979)

Research Centers

• Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences
• Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC)

UB 2020 Strategic Strengths

• Information and Computing Technology
• Health and Wellness Across the Lifespan

Grants and Sponsored Research

• August 2015–March 2019
  Clinical and Translational Science Award: Buffalo Clinical and Translational Research Center
  National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
  Role: Co-Investigator
  $13,151,902.
• January 2017–July 2018
  Coordinated Holistic Alignment of Manufacturing Processes
  DMDII
  Role: Principal Investigator
  $1,254,004.
• October 2012–September 2017
  Bioinformatics Integration Support Contract
  NIH
  Role: Principal Investigator
  $1,028,815.