Gio Wiederhold
| Gio Wiederhold | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 24, 1936 Varese, Italy |
| Residence | United States of America |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Alma mater | University of California, San Francisco |
| Doctoral advisor | John Amsden Starkweather |
| Doctoral students |
Hector Garcia-Molina David E. Shaw John Shoch James Z. Wang Marianne Winslett |
| Notable awards |
IEEE Fellow ACM Fellow Fellow of the ACMI |
Giovanni "Gio" Corrado Melchiore Wiederhold (born June 24, 1936) is an Italian-born computer scientist who spent most of his career at Stanford University. His research focuses on the design of large-scale database management systems, the protection of their content, often using knowledge-based techniques. After his formal retirement he focused on valuation methods for intellectual property and intellectual capital.
Gio Wiederhold was born June 24, 1936 in Varese, Italy. He graduated C.Ae. cum laude in Aeronautical Engineering from the TMS Technicum in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1957. From 1957 to 1958 he did graduate work at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft. He emigrated to the United States in 1958. Since 1966 he has been married to Voy Yat Jew.
He worked on computations of short-range missile trajectories at NATO's Air Defense Technical Center (SADTC) in Wassenaar near The Hague in 1958. From 1958 to 1961 he worked at IBM's service bureau. Projects at IBM included developing numerical methods for computing the power (specific impulse) of solid rocket fuel combustion in 1959, and inserting alphabetic I/O capability into FORTRAN compilers to allow output of chemical equations in 1960.
In 1962 at the University of California, Berkeley he developed an incremental compiling technology, with a flexibility close to interpreted code, while running at high speed. he also took course work at UC Berkeley. In 1965 he developed similar techniques for the Stanford University Medical School. The next year he worked on real-time data-acquisition control and data analysis using coupled computers for clinical research, and in 1970 on transposed storage (now termed a Column-oriented DBMS) for databases for very-high speed on-line analytical processing, also at the medical school. From 1973 through 1976 he did graduate work at the University of California, San Francisco, with his Ph.D. thesis titled "A Methodology for the Design of Medical Database Systems". An extensive study of computerized ambulatory health care systems, appeared as an appendix to his dissertation.
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