For an easy to read version of most of the good stuff below, see my Wikipedia page.
For some of my presentations and/or videos about the Semantic Web and
related topics, please check my presentations
and videos page
slides from more recent talks are on My slideshare page
Professor James A. Hendler
Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences
Director, Rensselaer Future of Computing Institute
Director,RPI-IBM Artifical Intellligence Research Collaboration
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
Head, Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory
All at the
Universty of Maryland, College Park
(which, unfortunately, does not
archive older web sites and thus direct links to all of the above are
gone. You can find information on many of these sites via
the Internet Archive.)
Various and Sundry of Interest
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. (these slides have been updated from time to time, so should still be relevant)
Research Interests:
(a list desperately in need of updating)
Some of my books:
- Social Machines: The coming collision of Artificial Intelligence, Social Networking, and Humanity Apress (Spring), 2016.
- Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist:Effective modeling in RDFS and OWL(Second Edition) Morgan-Kaufman, 2011. (With Dean Allemang).
- 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
Note: My apology to my MS student advisees, but the list just became too long
- Dr. Nkechinyere (Nneka) Agu, (PhD, 2022)
- Dr. Eric Ameres, (PhD, 2018)
- Dr. Medha Atre, (PhD, 2011)
- Dr, Garth Barbour, (Phd, 2002)
- Prof. Bernardo Cuenca-Grau (PhD, University of Valencia, 2005)
- Dr. Dominic Difranzo, (PhD 2015)
- Dr. Rahul Divekar, (PhD 2020)
- Dr. Ahmed Eleish(PhD 2022)
- Dr. Simon Ellis, (PhD 2016)
- Dr. Kutluhan Erol(PhD, 1995)
- Prof. Matthew Evett(PhD, 1994)
- Prof. Jennifer Golbeck(PhD, 2005)
- Dr. Kristine Gloria Garcia (PhD 2016)
- Dr. Alvaro Graves-Fuenzalida(PhD, 2013)
- Dr. Christian Halaschek-Wiener(PhD, 2007)
-
Prof. Jeff Heflin , (PhD 2001)
- Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati(PhD, 1989)
- Dr. Aditya Kalyanpur(PhD, 2006)
- Prof. Neha Keshan (PhD,2023)
- Dr. Brian Kettler(PhD, 1995)
- Dr. Matthew Klawonn (PhD, 2019)
- Dr. Emily Klein(PhD, 2023)
- Dr. Robert Kohout (PhD, 1998)
- Dr. Vladimir Kolovski (PhD, 2008)
- Dr. Xian Li(PhD, 2013)
- Prof. Sean Luke (PhD, 2000)
- Dr. Bassem Makni (PhD, 2018)
- Dr. James Michaelis (PhD, 2014)
- Dr. Jaime Montemayor (PhD, 2004)
- Dr. Eduardo Ostertag (PhD, 1992)
- Dr. Feifei Pan(PhD, 2022)
- Dr. Nidhi Rastogi (PhD, 2018)
- Dr. Cara Reedy (PhD, 2020)
- Dr. Bhanushee Sharma (PhD, 2022)
- Dr. Joshua Shinavier (PhD 2015)
- Dr, David Silberberg, (Phd, 2002)
- Dr. Evren Sirin(PhD,2006)
- Prof. Lee Spector(PhD, 1992)
- Prof. Merwyn Taylor(PhD, 1998)
- Dr. Reiko Tsuneto(PhD, 1998)
- Dr. Amar Viswanathan (PhD, 2018)
- Dr. Jesse Weaver (Phd, 2013)
- Dr. Greg Williams (Phd, 2013)
- Dr. Anne Wilson (PhD, 1993)
- Dr. Bingsheng Yao (PhD, 2024)
Photo gallery
Some photos from various things I've done in my career:
Outside Interests:
Scuba Diving, travel, my kid
Still useful advice:
If Austin Tate suggests you go with
him after the meeting, DO IT!
Fun with embedded markup
The following links are to test RDFa services with Yahoo Search Monkey and/or Google's Rich Snippets.
event test: event
News test: news
The following is generated by a schema.org person description on this page.