Gio Wiederhold | |
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Born | |
Died | December 26, 2022 | (aged 86)
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | University of California, San Francisco |
Awards | IEEE Fellow ACM Fellow Fellow of the ACMI |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer Science |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | John Amsden Starkweather |
Doctoral students | Hector Garcia-Molina David E. Shaw John Shoch James Z. Wang Marianne Winslett |
Giovanni Corrado Melchiore Wiederhold (June 24, 1936 – December 26, 2022) was an Italian-born American computer scientist who spent most of his career at Stanford University. His research focused 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.