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James Hendler, PhD
Director, Future of Computing Institute and the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
James Hendler is the Director of the Future of Computing Institute and the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI. He also is acting director of the RPI-IBM Future of Computing Research Collaboration and serves as a member of Board of the UK’s charitable Web Science Trust. Hendler is a data scientist with specific interests in open government and scientific data, AI and machine learning, semantic data integration and the data policy in government. One of the originators of the Semantic Web, he has authored over 450 books, technical papers, and articles in the areas of Open Data, the Semantic Web, AI, and data policy and governance. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. In 2004, he became the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing editors for Science. In 2010, Hendler was selected as an “Internet Web Expert” by the US government, helping in the development and launch of the US data.gov open data website. In 2013, he was appointed as the Open Data Advisor to New York State and in 2015 appointed a member of the US Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee. In 2016, became a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information, in 2017 a member of the Director’s Advisory Committee of the National Security Directorate of PNNL and in 2021 became chair of the ACM’s global Technology Policy Council. Hendler is a Fellow of the AAAI, AAIA, AAAS, ACM, BCS, IEEE and the US National Academy of Public Administration.
Selected Service, Fellowships, Awards and Honors
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Fellow, US National Academy of Public Administration, 2018; co-chair membership committee, 2022-
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Chair, ACM Global Technology Policy Council, 2021-2023, member 2023-pres.
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Member, Directors Advisory Committee, National Security Directorate, PNNL, 2017 – 2023.
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Distinguished Service Award, Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, 2017.
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Member National Academy Board on Research Data and Information, 2016-2020.
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Member, Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Committee, 2015- 2019.
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AMIA Spotlight Award, Association of Moving Image Archivists, 2016.
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Open Data Advisor, New York State, 2013 – pres.
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Invited Expert (Cyber Resiliency), World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 2013.
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Data Innovation Award – Open Data, Strata Data Conference Oct 2012, NY, NY.
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Fellow: AAAI, 1999; British Computer Society, 2007; IEEE, 2009, AAAS 2012, ACM, 2016.
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Trustee, Web Science Trust, 2010-pres. Chair of Board of Trustees, 2015- 2021
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Board of Reviewing Editors, Science, 2004-2017. EIC, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 1/05-12/08; EIC Data Intelligence (MIT Press), 2020 – pres.
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US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal, 10/02.
Funding:
PI or Co-PI on over $60 million in grants from US federal agencies, 1986-2022
Recipient of over $75 million in Industrial gifts or contracts, 1986-2022
His most recent book is “Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: Effective Modeling for Linked Data, RDFS, and OWL (ACM Books) 3rd Edition,” 2020
A complete curriculum vita for Dr. Hendler is available from http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~hendler