NCOR-Brazil 2021
Published February 19, 2021
The National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) now has a sister organization in Brazil. The non-profit association, NCOR-BR, consists of a dynamic network of researchers, professionals and students committed to playing an active role in discussions on Applied Ontology, disseminating knowledge and good practices to support high quality ontological artifacts. The Brazilian chapter of NCOR was born from more than a decade of discussions within a group of researchers in Information Science.
NCOR – created and directed by Barry Smith – was founded in Buffalo, New York, in 2005 with the aim of improving the quality of research and development in Applied Ontology, in addition to investigating and developing tools and strategies for the evaluation and quality assurance of ontological artifacts.
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Barry Smith
PhD, FACMI
Affiliate ProfessorshipAffiliate ProfessorshipAreas of Specialization
Applied Ontology; Artificial Intelligence
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
- Ontology of Economics Fall 2024
- Nature and Culture 2023
- Philosophy of Science 2022
- American Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance 2021
- Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence (Crash Course) October 2 - 3, 2021
- 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
- SC Dowland, B Smith, MA Diller, J Landgrebe, WR Hogan, Ontology of language, with applications to demographic data Applied Ontology, 1-24, 2024.
- Barry Smith, Biomedical ontologies in Peter Elkin (ed.), Terminology, Ontology and their Implementations, Springer, 2023, 125-169.
- Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, Why Machines Will Never Rule The World — Artificial Intelligence Without Fear (Routledge 2022)
- S Babcock, J Beverley, LG Cowell, B Smith, The Infectious Disease Ontology in the age of COVID-19, Journal of Biomedical Semantics 2021, 13 (12).
- Jobst Landgrebe and Barry Smith, Making AI Meaningful Again, Synthese 2021, 198 (3), 2061-2081.
- Ontology of Economics Fall 2024
