James Hendler

James Hendler
James Hendler
Born	2 April 1957 (age 67); Queens, New York
Other names	Jim
Education	Yale University, Southern Methodist University and Brown University
Occupation	Computer scientist
Employer	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Known for	Significant Contributions to the Semantic Web
Title	Professor
Spouse	Terry Horowit
Children	Sharone Horowit-Hendler
Parent	Marge and Sam Hendler
Website	http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler
Notes
	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, USA, and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.^{[citation needed]}

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 1, 2007. Hendler has appointments in Computer and Cognitive Sciences, and is also the Assistant Dean for Information Technology and Web Science.

Hendler helps lead the 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.^[1] 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. Hendler is also one of the directors of the Web Science Trust and a visiting professor for the Institute of Creative Technology at DeMontfort University.

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

In October, 2010 Playboy magazine named Hendler to the "Honor Roll," their list of twenty of the most innovative US professors "Reinventing the Classroom."

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 led to the creation of other Agent-based projects: 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.^[2]

Hendler was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila, of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001.^[3]

Books and awards

Books

Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (w/ Dean Allemang) Morgan Kaufmann (2008) ISBN 0123735564
Spinning the Semantic Web (ed) MIT Press (2005) ISBN 026256212X
Robots for Kids (ed) Morgan Kaufmann (2000) ISBN 1558605975
Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence (ed) AAAI Press (1994) ISBN 0262611023
Expert Systems: The User Interface (ed) Ablex Pub (1988) ISBN 0893914290
Integrating Marker-Passing and Problem Solving. Lawrence Erlbaum (1987) ISBN 0898599822

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
2009 - Fellow, IEEE
2010 - Named to the "Honor Roll" of 20 most innovative US professors by Playboy magazine.

Boards and advisory boards

Radar Networks, Advisory Board
TopQuadrant, Advisory Board
DataGrid, Advisory Board
Bintro, Board of Directors

References

^ "RPI Press Release".
^ "The W3C's proposal for the development of the Semantic Web under DARPA'S DAML Research Program".
^ Berners-Lee, Tim (May 17, 2001). "The Semantic Web". Scientific American Magazine. Retrieved March 26, 2008. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

External links

Home page

[1] "RPI Press Release".

[2] "The W3C's proposal for the development of the Semantic Web under DARPA'S DAML Research Program".

[3] Berners-Lee, Tim (May 17, 2001). "The Semantic Web". Scientific American Magazine. Retrieved March 26, 2008. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

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