James Hendler

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name = James Hendler


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residence = Albany, New York, USA
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known_for = Significant Contributions to the Semantic Web
education = Yale University, Southern Methodist UniversityBrown University
employer = Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
occupation = Computer Scientist
title = Professor
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spouse = Terry Horowit
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website = http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler
footnotes = Holder of the Tetherless World Chair of Computer and Cognitive Science at RPI

James Hendler (born April 2, 1957) is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.

Background and research

Dr. Hendler held a longstanding position as professor at the University of Maryland where he was the Director of the Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery and held joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research. Hendler was the Director for Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory, and a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the British Computer Society.

In June 14, 2006, James A. Hendler was appointed senior constellation professor of the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and he became a professor at that institute starting on January 1st, 2007. Hendler helps lead the new Tetherless World Constellation on increasing access to information at any time and place without the need for a “tether” to a specific computer or device. [cite web|title=RPI Press Release|url=http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=1596] Researchers envision an increasingly web-accessible world in which personal digital assistants (PDAs), cameras, music-listening devices, cell phones, laptops, and other technologies converge to offer the user interactive information and communication.

He is also the Editor in Chief of "IEEE Intelligent Systems" and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for "Science".

He is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board and a former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). During his tenure there, he was responsible for projects such as CoABS - Control of Agent Based System, which lead onto the creation of other Agent-based projects [cite web|title=Software Tech News|url=http://www.softwaretechnews.com/stn4-4/agentbased.html] : Taskable Agent Software Kit (TASK) and DARPA's Agent Markup Language (DAML) - the latter of which was involved in funding the emerging Semantic Web area [cite web|title=The W3C's proposal for the development of the Semantic Web under DARPA'S DAML Research Program|url=http://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/DevelopmentProposal] .

Hendler was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area.

Books and awards

Books

*Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (w/ Dean Allemang)
*Spinning the Semantic Web (ed)
*Robots for Kids (ed)
*Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence (ed)
*Expert System: the Human Interface (ed)
*Integrating Marker-Passing and Problem Solving

Honors

*1995 – Fulbright Foundation Fellowship
*1999 - Fellow, AAAI
*2002 – US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal
*2005 - Robert Engelmore Memorial Lecture Prize, AAAI
*2007 - Fellow, British Computer Society

Boards and advisory boards

*Radar Networks, Adv. Board
* TopQuadrant, Adv. Board
* DataGrid, Adv Board

References

External links

* [http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler/ Home page]