Future of the Web: James Hendler Leads Tetherless World Research Constellation

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Title	Future of the Web: James Hendler Leads Tetherless World Research Constellation
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Source	Inside Rensselaer
Source URL	http://www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v1n1/hendler.html
Date	2007/07/01
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About	James A. Hendler

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As a 12-year-old boy in 1969 watching 2001: A Space Odyssey, James Hendler’s eyes became fixed on HAL-9000, the computer that could predict equipment failure, be a team player, throw in a few philosophical lines for good measure, and sing “Bicycle Built for Two” while going insane.

The movie inspired the senior constellation professor of Rensselaer’s Tetherless World Research Constellation into a lifelong career in artificial intelligence (AI) and computing that has spanned more than three decades.

“The people in the movie were boring, but the computer was fascinating,” he says with a chuckle. “I wanted to create that level of artificial intelligence someday. The idea of a computer that, not so much could talk, but could understand and do so much was just brilliant.”... (more)