As of January 1, 2007 Professor Hendler has moved from the University of Maryland to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
For more information about my new position, see the RPI Press Release.
For my old Maryland Web Site (archived) see http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler/old-index.html

For some of my presentations and/or videos about the Semantic Web and related topics, please check my presentations and videos page.

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Professor James A. Hendler

Tetherless World Senior Constellation Professor
Department of Computer Science and Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY 12180.

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

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 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 CNN.COM chat on the future of Artificial Intelligence.
Get funding tips from my talk "How to get that first grant:A young scientist's guide to (AI) funding in America" which was delivered at AAAI-98, Madison, Wisconsin, 1998.

The Usual Shameless Self Promotion

A short Bio.
A 2-page mini-vita (last update, July 2007)
My full vita (last update Oct 2007)
I am 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.
A word cloud from wordle.net based on my publications in DBLP: (click on the image to see full-sized version)

FUNDING TUTORIAL SLIDES

Slides from my tutorial entitled "How to get that first grant:A young scientist's guide to (AI) funding in America" which was delivered at AAAI-98, Madison, Wisconsin, 1998.

Research Interests:

(a list desperately in need of updating)

Semantic Web Research
AI projects
Robotics
And check out this great new project in robotics and education

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.

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

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. Anne Wilson (PhD, 1993)

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

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).

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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