Stanford Medical Informatics

Stanford Medical Informatics (SMI) is an interdisciplinary research group at Stanford University. SMI brings together scientists who create and validate models of how knowledge and data are used within biomedicine. It studies new methods for acquiring, representing, processing, and managing knowledge and data within health care and the biomedical sciences.

SMI has a long history of studying and using ontology within information systems. The group has pioneered the development of intelligent systems that incorporate explicit, rich ontologies that are linked to reusable problem-solving tools with powerful reasoning capabilities. SMI is well known for development of the Protégé system for ontology development and management.

Knowledge Systems Laboratory

The Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory
(KSL) conducts research in the areas of knowledge representation and automated reasoning in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Current work focuses on enabling technology for the Semantic Web, hybrid reasoning, explaining answers from heterogeneous applications, deductive question-answering, representing and reasoning with multiple contexts, knowledge aggregation, ontology engineering, and knowledge-based technology for intelligence analysts.

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