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Deborah L. McGuinness
TWC Co-chair Deborah L. McGuinness
TWC Co-chair Deborah L. McGuinness named an International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) Fellow!

Congratulations to RPI Chaired Professor Deborah L McGuinness, Ph.D., on being named an International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) Fellow!

The IAOA Fellowship recognizes distinguished scholars whose work has advanced the field of applied ontology through research, education, community service, and practice.

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François Scharffe
Invited talk: "KEy: A Knowledge Engineering Harness" by François Scharffe
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Jim Hendler
Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences Jim Hendler
Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences Jim Hendler receives a 2026 Knowledge Graph Lifetime Achievement Award!

Congratulations to Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences Jim Hendler on receiving a 2026 Knowledge Graph Lifetime Achievement Award!

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Jim Hendler
Jim Hendler is the director of the Rensselaer Future of Computing Institute and is the Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web, and Cognitive Sciences and director of the RPI-IBM Future of Computing Research Collaboration
Jim Hendler Receives Service Award at International Semantic Web Conference (05 Mar 2024)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s James A. Hendler, Ph.D., was honored with the Semantic Web Science Association Service Award at the 22nd International Semantic Web Conference. Hendler was recognized for playing a founding role in creating the field, his support for the community, and for his contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion, especially in supporting the advancement of women in the community.

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Contributions of ACM Fellows depicted as a word cloud
Contributions of ACM Fellows depicted as a word cloud
ACM Names 13 Women as Fellows for Contributions to Computing (Mar 2024)

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 

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Deborah McGuinness
Deborah McGuinness Is Honored for Contributions to Knowledge Technologies (09 Jan 2024)

Rensselaer Polytec

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Deborah McGuinness Is Recognized for Achievements in Artificial Intelligence (30 Jan 2023)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Deborah McGuinness has been elected a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) “for significant contributions to the semantic web, knowledge representation and reasoning environments, and deployed artificial intelligence applications.” AAAI is a nonprofit scientific society that promotes research in artificial intelligence and its responsible use. The AAAI fellows program recognizes people who have “made significant, sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence.”

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Deborah McGuinness Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the Knowledge Graph Conference
Deborah McGuinness Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the Knowledge Graph Conference
Deborah McGuinness Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at the Knowledge Graph Conference (9 Jun 2022)

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The Knowledge Graph Conference 2022
Professor Deborah McGuinness Receives Lifetime Achievement Award at The Knowledge Graph Conference (4 May 2022)

 

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Designing a strong test for measuring true common-sense reasoning
Nature Machine Intelligence: Designing a Strong Test for Measuring True Common-sense Reasoning

An article authored by several TWC researchers titled “Designing a strong test for measuring true common-sense reasoning” was published in the April 2022 issue of Nature Machine Intelligence. The article addresses the need to test the full complexity of common-sense reasoning and for more comprehensive evaluation methods.

Authors include:

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