Prof James Hendler

James Hendler is a Professor at the University of Maryland where he is the Director for Semantic Web and Agent Technology at the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Laboratory. He also has joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science, the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, the Institute for Systems Research, and is an affiliate of the Electrical Engineering Department. He has authored around 150 technical papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, robotics, agent-based computing and high performance processing.

Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and chairs the W3C's Web Ontology Working Group.

Hendler and his research group are known for the development of SHOE, the first Web-based knowledge representation language.