15 Facts About James Hendler

James Alexander Hendler was born on April 2,1957 and is an artificial intelligence researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, United States, and one of the originators of the Semantic Web.

James Hendler is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

James Hendler has an MSc from Brown University, an MS in Cognitive Psychology from Southern Methodist University, and a BS from Yale University.

James 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.

James Hendler was the Director for Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory.

James Hendler was co-author, with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila, of the article "The Semantic Web" which appeared in Scientific American in 2001.

James Hendler has appointments in Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, and served as the Dean for Information Technology and Web Science from 2009 to 2012.

In 2019, James Hendler was named Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration, a large joint project between IBM Research and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

In 2022, James Hendler became the Founding Director of Rensselaer's Future of Computing Institute.

James 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.

James Hendler is the former 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.

James Hendler 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.

James Hendler served as an "Internet Web Expert" for the US government, providing guidance to the Data.

In 2018, James Hendler was elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

Since 2018, James Hendler has been a regular participant on the Roundtable Panel at WAMC radio.