Barry Smith
PhD
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Julian Park Chair
Affiliate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Artificial Intelligence
Contact Information
105 Park Hall
UB North Campus
Buffalo NY, 14260-4150
Phone: (716) 650-0075
Fax: (716) 645-6139
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Education
PhD, Philosophy, University of Manchester (1976)
MA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University (1975)
BA, Mathematics and Philosophy, Oxford University, 1st Class Joint Honors (1973)
Courses
- 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)
Selected Publications
- Jobst Landgrebe, Barry Smith, There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test, 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 Again", 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 research”, Scientific Data, 5, 2018.