JOANNA H. SHER, M.D

Scalable highly expressive reasoner (SHER)

In this paper, we describe SHER (Scalable Highly Expressive Reasoner), a breakthrough technology that provides semantic querying of large relational datasets using OWL ontologies. SHER relies on a unique algorithm based on ontology summarization and combines a traditional in-memory description logic reasoner with a database backed RDF Store to scale reasoning to very large Aboxes. In our latest...

John H. Laragh, MD: Clinician-Scientist

John Laragh is an outstanding clinician-scientist who discovered that renin, a mostly forgotten kidney hormone, causes essential hypertension1,2 and its complications.3 This discovery led to two new classes of drugs, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers, which revolutionized the treatment of hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and kidney disease...

H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr, MD, PhD.

Specification using Z - Notation Sher

Current World Wide Web means to display pages to end user, while the Semantic Web is a vision of a next-generation network focuses on "Meaning" instead of merely pasting arbitrary text on a page. An intelligent software agents use information to organize and filter data to meet the user's needs. DAML+OIL and Web Ontology Language OWL are the current environments to create Ontology over RDF and ...

Recollections of Irving H. Sher 1924-1996: Polymath/information scientist extraordinaire

Over a 35-year period, Irving H. Sher played a critical role in the development and implementation of the Science Citation IndexT and other ISIT products. Trained as a biochemist, statistician, and linguist, Sher brought a unique combination of talents to ISI as Director of Quality Control and Director of Research and Development. His talents as a teacher and mentor evoked loyalty. He was a par...