James Hendler
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]
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Born | |
Nationality | United States |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | Yale University Southern Methodist University Brown University |
Known for | Significant Contributions to the Semantic Web[1] |
Spouse(s) | Terry Horowit |
Children | Sharon Horowit-Hendler (1987) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence Semantic web |
Institutions | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 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 |
Influences | Tim Berners-Lee, Eugene Charniak, Edward Feigenbaum, Andrew Hugill, Jack Minker, Dana S. Nau, Ben Shneiderman |
Influenced | Jen Golbeck |
Website | www |
Education
Hendler completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Brown University in 1986 with a thesis on automated planning and scheduling.[2] 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[3][4] are in the semantic web[1][5] and artificial intelligence.[6][7] 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. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the British Computer Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the AAAS and the Association for Computing Machinery.
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 and Cognitive Sciences, and served as the Assistant 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.[8] In 2017, he also became the Rensselaer lead of the joint RPI-IBM Center for Health Empowerment by Analytics, Learning and Semantics, (HEALS)[9] a member of the IBM Artificial Intelligence Horizons Network.[10] In 2019, Hendler was named acting Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration[11], a large joint project between IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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.[12] 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 the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Web Science Trust and has been a visiting professor at Hebrew University, DeMontfort University, Bath Spa University, University of Edinburgh and an honorary professor at Wuhan University and University_of_Leicester.
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.[13]
Hendler served as an "Internet Web Expert" for the U.S. government, providing guidance to the Data.gov project,[14] and in September 2013 he was appointed as the Open Data Advisor for NY State.[15] In 2015, he was appointed a member of the US Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee (HSSTAC) and in 2016 appointed to the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information. In 2017, he became a member of the Director's Advisory Committee for the National Security Directorate at PNNL. In 2018, he was appointed chair of the Association for Computing Machinery's US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC, formerly USACM) [16]
In 2018, Hendler was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (United States).[17]
Books
- Social Machines: The coming collision of artificial intelligence, social networking and humanity w/Alice Mulvehill, (2016) Apress ISBN 978-1-4842-1157-1.[18]
- Web Science:Understanding the Emergence of Macro-Level Features on the World Wide Webw/Kieron O'Hara, Noshir Contractor, Wendy Hall, Nigel Shadbolt; NOW publishers, 2013 - doi:10.1561/1800000017.
- Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist (w/ Dean Allemang) Morgan Kaufmann (2008) ISBN 0-12-373556-4 (second edition, 2011).
- Spinning the Semantic Web (ed) MIT Press (2005) ISBN 0-262-56212-X
- Robots for Kids (ed) Morgan Kaufmann (2000) ISBN 1-55860-597-5
- Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence (ed) AAAI Press (1994) 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
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- 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, AAAS
- 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[19]
- 2017 - Distinguished Service Award, AAAI
- 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration (United States)
Boards and advisory boards
- Web Science Trust, Chair of the Board
- Radar Networks, Advisory Board, (sold to EVRI)
- TopQuadrant, Advisory Board[20]
- Franz Inc, Advisory Board
- Bright Hub, Advisory Board
- SocialWire, Advisory Board
- Common Crawl, Advisory Board
References
- Berners-Lee, T.; Hendler, J.; Lassila, O. (2001). "The Semantic Web" (PDF). Scientific American. 2841 (5): 34. Bibcode:2001SciAm.284e..34B. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0501-34.
- Hendler, James (1986). Integrating Marker-Passing and Problem-Solving: A Spreading-Activation Approach to Improved Choice in Planning (PhD thesis). Brown University. ProQuest 303438400.
- James Hendler publications indexed by Google Scholar
- James A. Hendler at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Hendler, J. (2001). "Agents and the Semantic Web". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 16 (2): 30–37. doi:10.1109/5254.920597.
- Sirin, E.; Parsia, B.; Wu, D.; Hendler, J.; Nau, D. (2004). "HTN planning for Web Service composition using SHOP2". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 1 (4): 377. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2004.06.005.
- Wu, D.; Parsia, B.; Sirin, E.; Hendler, J.; Nau, D. (2003). "Automating DAML-S Web Services Composition Using SHOP2". The Semantic Web - ISWC 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2870. p. 195. doi:10.1007/978-3-540-39718-2_13. ISBN 978-3-540-20362-9.
- stLight.options, var switchTo5x=false. "The Rensselaer IDEA: Harnessing the Power of Data to Change the World".
- "HealthCare IT NEWS". 2017-05-22.
- "IBM AI Horizons Network".
- "Rensselaer-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration".
- "RPI Press Release".
- "The W3C's proposal for the development of the Semantic Web 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.
- "Featured member of the AMC- Jim Hendler".
- "National Academy of Public Administration Announces 2018 Class of Academy Fellows".
- Social Machines - The Coming Collision of Artificial - James Hendler - Springer. Apress. 2016. ISBN 9781484211571.
- Cacm Staff (March 2017), "ACM Recognizes New Fellows", Communications of the ACM, 60 (3): 23, doi:10.1145/3039921.
- "TopQuadrant, Inc".