James Hendler
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James Hendler is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.
[edit] Background and Research
Dr. Hendler was a longstanding 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, and the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Institute for Systems Research. Hendler is 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.
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 will focus the work of 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. 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 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[1]: Taskable Agent Software Kit (TASK) and DARPA's Agent Markup Language (DAML) - the latter of which was largely responsible for the emergence of the Semantic Web,[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, now the most cited paper in the Semantic Web area.
Books
- 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 – won the Fulbright Foundation Fellowship
- 2002 – awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal
