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Professor James A. Hendler

Formerly:
Director, The Joint Institute for Knowledge Discovery
Co- Director (and head of Semantic Web and Agents Research, ) Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory
(former Head, Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory)

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Various and Sundry of Interest

• My Testimony to the New York State Assembly on the State's need for an open Data Web Site, May 22, 2012.
• Yes, it is true, I was mentioned in Playboy magazine (Oct 2010) - but no photo and only with respect to my role as a professor - you can see the Press Release - so stop snickering.
• I often get asked about the phrase "A little Semantics Goes a Long Way" and it's history. I finally created this Web page in response.
• Learn more about Web Science and check out Dr. Web's Wide World my blog on the Nature Network.
• The Emerging Science of the World Wide Web Workshop was held in London September 12-15, 2005.
• I gave the Robert Engelmore Memorial Lecture at AAAI 2005, entitled Knowledge is Power: the view from the Semantic Web. (8M PDF download).
• The W3C Web Ontology Working Group which I co-chaired produced The Web Ontology Language OWL .
• Slides from my presentations on the Semantic Web and related topics can be found at my presentations page.
• My 1st Policy Forum in Science can be found on the Science Web site here with more background here.
• My article "Is there an intelligent agent in your future (Nature Webmatters, 3/99)" which was the recipient of the "2000 AAAI Effective Expository Writing Award."
• An article entitled Agents on the Semantic Web which describes a model of how agents and ontologies play together in the web of the future.
• View the transcript of my 1/1/01 CNN.COM chat on the future of Artificial Intelligence. (Ten years later I am amazed -- I got a lot of it right!)

The Usual Shameless Self Promotion

• A short Bio (updated March 2013)
• A 1-page mini-vita (last update, March 2013)
• My full vita (last update, March 2013)
• I was the Editor in Chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems (and my editorials are available for free from that site).
• And you can check me out on Scholar.google.com - see my papers and citation counts.

FUNDING TUTORIAL SLIDES

Research Interests:

(a list desperately in need of updating)

• My RPI work in using the Semantic Web to enhance Open Government Data Sharing efforts.
• The Tetherless World Constellation at RPI which is where you can see my new work in Web Science, Semantic Web, and AI
• My UMCP Semantic Web Research
• AI projects
• I used to work in Robotics
• I'm still proud of this great project in robotics and education

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Some of my books:

• Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press, 2002
• Robots for Kids, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2000. (MK page)
• Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence, AAAI/MIT Press, 1994. (AAAI Press page)
• The Semantic Web - ISWC 2002 (proceedings) Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2342.

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Former Thesis Students:

I learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but from my students most of all. --- T.B. Ta'anith 7a

• Dr. Medha Atre, (PhD, 2011)
• Rene Bane, (MS, 1988)
• Dr, Garth Barbour, (Phd, 2002)
• Joy Bush, (MS, 1988)
• Dr. Bernardo Cuenca-Grau (PhD, University of Valencia, 2005)
• Dr. Kutluhan Erol(PhD, 1995)
• Prof. Matthew Evett(PhD, 1994)
• Prof. Jennifer Golbeck(PhD, 2005)
• Dr. Christian Halaschek-Wiener(PhD, 2007)
• Prof. Jeff Heflin , (PhD 2001)
• Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati(PhD, 1989)
• Dr. Aditya Kalyanpur(PhD, 2006)
• Dr. Brian Kettler(PhD, 1995)
• Dr. Robert Kohout (PhD, 1998)
• Dr. Vladimir Kolovski (PhD, 2008)
• Prof. Sean Luke (PhD, 2000)
• Vikram Manikonda (MS, EE 1994)
• Barrie Migdaloff (MS, 1995)
• Dr. Jaime Montemayor (PhD, 2004)
• Dr. Eduardo Ostertag (PhD, 1992)
• David Rager (MS, 1998)
• James Sanborn (MS, 1988)
• Oliver Seeliger(MS, 1995)
• Dr, David Silberberg, (Phd, 2002)
• Dr. Evren Sirin(PhD,2006)
• Prof. Lee Spector(PhD, 1992)
• Ruth Sperer, (MS, 1998)
• Prof. Merwyn Taylor(PhD, 1998)
• Dr. Reiko Tsuneto(PhD, 1998)
• Dr. Jesse Weaver (Phd, 2013)
• Dr. Greg Williams (Phd, 2013)
• Dr. Anne Wilson (PhD, 1993)

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Photo gallery

Some photos from various things I've done in my career:

• Graduation Day at RPI, 2010 (From Times Union photo gallery)
• A 2004 talk at the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem.
• Photos from the 1996-1997 IDA Defense Science Study Group. (For more info on the DSSG program click here.)
• Photos from the Cognitive Systems Workshop which Rod Brooks , Raj Reddy, Bob Kahn and I organized under DARPA IPTO sponsorship - Nov, 2002.
• Photos from Dastuhl Seminar on Control of Search in AI Planning.
• Group Photo: The 1986 Connectionist Models Summer School (Gif, 342k).

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Outside Interests:

Scuba Diving, travel, my daughter

Still useful advice:

If Austin Tate suggests you go with him after the meeting, DO IT!

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Jim Hendler Professor

Tetherless World Constellation RPI 110 8th Street Troy, NY 12180

(518) 276-4401 My Constellation Chair colleagues: Deborah McGuinness Peter Fox

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