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 a member of the board of the UK's charitable Web 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 Agent Markup 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 by Massachusetts 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.
Fabien Gandon is a Research Director and Senior
Researcher at Inria, France. Fabien's PhD in 2002 pioneered the
joint use of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) and the
Semantic Web to manage a variety of data sources and users above a
Web architecture. Then, as a research project leader at Carnegie
Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA), he proposed AI methods to
enforce privacy preferences in querying and reasoning about
personal data. In 2004, having been recruited as a researcher at
Inria, he began to study models and algorithms to integrate social
media and knowledge-based AI systems on the Web while keeping
humans in the loop. In 2012 Fabien became the representative of
Inria atW3C and founded Wimmics, a joint research team working on
bridging social and formal semantics on the Web with AI methods. In
2017 he established and became the Director of the Joint Research
Laboratory between Inria the Qwant search engine. The same year he
also became responsible for the research convention between the
Ministry of Culture and Inria with a special interest for cultural
data and applications. In 2018 Fabien became Vice Head of Science
for the research center of Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée.
Over the years and since 2002, Fabien also never stopped teaching
Semantic Web and Linked Data, and he has authored several Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs) on the topic.
Dean Allemang is a consultant specializing in
Semantic Web deployments in a number of industries, including
finance, media, government and pharmaceuticals. He works as a staff
ontologist for the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) Council,
working primarily on the Finance Industry Business Ontology (FIBO).
He is a member of the advisory board of data.world, and formerly
Chief Scientist at TopQuadrant, the first company in theUS devoted
to the SemanticWeb. He was the recipient of a National Science
Foundation Graduate Fellowship and the President's 300th
Commencement Award at Ohio State University. He has studied and
worked extensively throughout Europe and Australia, as a Marshall
Scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK from1982 through to 1984,
was twice winner of the Swiss Technology Prize (1992 and 1996), and
served as Chief Scientist of Capsicum Pty Ltd, an early adopter of
Semantic Web Technology in Australia. He has served as an invited
expert on numerous international review boards, including a review
of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute – the world's largest
Semantic Web research institute, and the Innovative Medicines
Initiative, a collaboration between a consortium of pharmaceutical
companies and the European Commission to set the roadmap for
information management in the pharmaceutical industry for the near
future.
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