James Hendler
| James Alexander Hendler | |
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| Born |
2 April 1957 Queens, New York |
| Residence | Albany, New York, United States |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Artificial intelligence Semantic web |
| Institutions | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Maryland |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Southern Methodist University Brown University |
| 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 |
| Known for | Significant Contributions to the Semantic Web |
| Influences | Tim Berners-Lee, Eugene Charniak, Edward Feigenbaum, Andrew Hugill, Jack Minker, Dana S. Nau |
| Influenced | Jen Golbeck |
| Spouse | Terry Horowit |
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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.
Hendler completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree at Brown University in 1986 with a thesis on automated planning and scheduling. 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.
Hendler's research interests are in the semantic web and artificial intelligence. 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.
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.
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