James Hendler
James Alexander Hendler | |
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University of Maryland | |
Thesis | Integrating Marker-Passing and Problem-Solving: A Spreading-Activation Approach to Improved Choice in Planning (1986) |
Doctoral advisor | Eugene Charniak |
Doctoral students | Jen Golbeck |
Website | www |
James Alexander Hendler (born April 2, 1957) is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States, and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.[1] He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.[2]
Education
Hendler completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Brown University in 1986 with a thesis on automated planning and scheduling.[3] He also has an MS (1981) in Cognitive Psychology from Southern Methodist University, a MSc (1983) from Brown University, and a BS (1978) from Yale University.
Research
Hendler's research interests
Hendler was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila, of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001.[1]
On June 14, 2006, James A. Hendler was appointed senior constellation professor of the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and he became a professor at that institute starting on January 1, 2007. Hendler has appointments in Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, and served as the Dean for Information Technology and Web Science from 2009 to 2012. In 2012 he became the Head of the Computer Science Department at RPI and in 2013 he became the Director of the RPI Institute for Data Exploration and Applications.[9] In 2017, he also became the Rensselaer lead of the joint RPI-IBM Center for Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning and Semantics, (HEALS)[10] a member of the IBM Artificial Intelligence Horizons Network.[11] In 2019, Hendler was named Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration,[12] a large joint project between IBM Research and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 2022, Hendler became the Founding Director of Rensselaer's Future of Computing Institute.[13]
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.
He is also the Editor in Chief Emeritus of IEEE Intelligent Systems and was 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 the Control of Agent Based Systems (CoABS) program 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.[15]
Hendler served as an "Internet Web Expert" for the U.S. government, providing guidance to the
In 2018, Hendler was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States).[19]
Since 2018, Hendler has been a regular participant on the Roundtable Panel at WAMC radio.
Books
- Linking the World’s Information: Essays on Tim Berners-Lee’s Invention of the World Wide Web, O. Seneviratne, J. Hendler (eds), ACM Press, 2023.
- Social Machines: The coming collision of artificial intelligence, social networking and humanity w/Alice Mulvehill, (2016) ISBN 978-1-4842-1157-1.[20]
- Web Science:Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Web w/.
- Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (w/ ISBN 1450376142(second edition, 2011)(third edition, 2020).
- Spinning the Semantic Web (ed) ISBN 0-262-56212-X
- Robots for Kids (ed) Morgan Kaufmann (2000) ISBN 1-55860-597-5
- Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence (ed) ISBN 0-262-61102-3
- Expert Systems: The User Interface (ed) Ablex Pub (1988) ISBN 0-89391-429-0
- Integrating Marker-Passing and Problem Solving. Lawrence Erlbaum (1987) ISBN 0-89859-982-2
Honors
- 1995 - Fulbright Foundation Fellowship
- 1999 - Fellow, AAAI
- 2002 - Department of the Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service
- 2005 - Robert Engelmore Memorial Lecture Prize, AAAI
- 2007 - Fellow, British Computer Society
- 2009 - Fellow, IEEE
- 2009 - Fellow, Semantic Technology Institute International
- 2010 - Named to the "Honor Roll" of 20 most innovative US professors by Playboy magazine
- 2010 - Named "Internet Web Expert" for US Office of Science and Technology Policy
- 2012 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2013 - Named Open Data Advisor, New York State Government
- 2014 - IBM Faculty Research Award
- 2015 - Appointed Member of the US Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee
- 2016 - Appointed Member of the National Academies' Board on Research Data and Information.
- 2016 - Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery[21]
- 2017 - Distinguished Service Award, AAAI
- 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration (United States)
- 2021 - chair, Global Technology Policy Council, Association for Computing Machinery
- 2022 - Honorary Professor and Fellow, University of Leicester
- 2023 - Service Award, Semantic Web Science Association
- 2024 - Steering Committee, AI Alliance.
Boards and advisory boards
- Trinity Alliance (NGO), Board of Trustees.
- Timbr.AI, Advisory Board
- Web Science Trust, board member, former chair of the Board
- Radar Networks, Advisory Board, (sold to EVRI)
- TopQuadrant, Advisory Board[22]
- Franz Inc, Advisory Board
- Bright Hub, Advisory Board
- SocialWire, Advisory Board
- Common Crawl, Advisory Board
References
- ^ .
- ^ "National Academy of Public Administration Announces 2018 Class of Academy Fellows". Archived from the original on 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
- ProQuest 303438400.
- ^ James Hendler publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ James A. Hendler at DBLP Bibliography Server
- S2CID 1893622.
- .
- ISBN 978-3-540-20362-9.
- ^ stLight.options, var switchTo5x=false. "The Rensselaer IDEA: Harnessing the Power of Data to Change the World".
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- ^ "IBM AI Horizons Network". 9 February 2021.
- ^ "Rensselaer-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration".
- ^ "Future of Computing Institute".
- ^ "RPI Press Release".
- ^ "The W3C's proposal for the development of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph under DARPA'S DAML Research Program".
- ^ "Data.gov Community Page". Archived from the original on 2011-04-30.
- ^ "Governor Cuomo Announces Special Advisors for Open Data Initiative". 28 September 2014. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
- ^ "Featured member of the AMC- Jim Hendler".
- ^ "National Academy of Public Administration Announces 2018 Class of Academy Fellows". Archived from the original on 2018-10-19. Retrieved 2018-10-19.
- ISBN 9781484211571.
- S2CID 31701275.
- ^ "TopQuadrant, Inc".