James Hendler is the Director of the Institute for Data Exploration and Applications and the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (New York, NY, USA). He also is the director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence Research Collaboration and serves as amember of the board of the UK's charitableWeb Science Trust and the advisory board of timbr.ai. James has authored over 400 books, technical papers, and articles. He is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the British Computer Society (BCS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) technical societies. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where he created the DARPA AgentMarkup Program(DAML) which helped to fund the science and creation of the SemanticWeb. James was the first computer scientist to serve on the board of reviewing editors for Science, is the former editor-in-chief of IEEE Intelligent Systems, and is currently coeditor of the Data Intelligence journal jointly published byMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press and the Chinese Academy of Science. In 2010, he was named one of the 20 most innovative professors in America by Playboymagazine and was selected as an "Internet Web Expert" by the US government. In 2016, became a member of the National Academies Board on Research Data and Information and in 2018 was elected a Fellow of the US National Academy of Public Administration.