SciX 2024 program

We are thrilled to announce our keynote speaker for Sunday's session at SciX 2024!

James Hendler

Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Presentation Title:

“The Foundations of AI: Exploring the Spectrum”

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.