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<meta http-equiv="Instance-Key" content="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler/"><relation "cs.member" from="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/"><relation "cs.name" to="Dr. James Hendler"><relation "cs.doctorialDegreeFrom" from="http://www.brown.edu"><relation "cs.emailAddress" to="[e-mail]"><category "cs.AssociateProfessor"><use-ontology "cs-dept-ontology" version="1.0" prefix="cs" url="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/SHOE/cs.html"><title>Prof. James A. Hendler</title>


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<h1>
Professor James A. Hendler
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<h3>Position:</h3>
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Associate Professor, <!WA1><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu">
<tab>Dept. of Computer Science</a> and <!WA2><a
href="http://www.isr.umd.edu"> Institute for Systems Research</a>, 
University of Maryland at College Park
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Acting Head, <!WA3><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler/AITL/index.html">Advanced Information Technology Laboratory</a> 
Head, <!WA4><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/plus.html">ParalleL Understanding Systems  Laboratory</a>
Head, <!WA5><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amrl/amrl.html">Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory</a> 
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<h3>E-mail:</h3>
[e-mail]  (Click <!WA6><a
href="http://www.cs.indiana.edu/finger/cs.umd.edu/hendler/w"> here</a>
to finger.)

<h3>Address/Phone:</h3>
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Dept. of Computer Science
A.V. Williams Bldg.
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA
Phone: [phone],  Fax: [phone]
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<h1> The Usual Shameless Self Promotion </h1>
<ul>
<li>For a short bio, <!WA7><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/bio.html">click here</a>.
<li>For my listing in <i> Who's Who in America 1996</i>
<!WA8><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/whos-who.gif"> click here</a>.
<li> For a recent (10/96) <i>curriculum vitae</i>  (postscript, 100K) 
<!WA9><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/cv.ps"> click here</a>.
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<h2>Research Interests:</h2>
<ul> 
<li>AI Planning Systems
<ul>
<li><!WA10><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Caper/caper.html"><b>High Performance Case-based Planning (CaPER system)</b></a> 
<li><!WA11><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Planning/htn.html"><b>Hierarchical Task Network Planning: Formalization and Analysis</b></a>
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<li><!WA12><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/amrl/amrl.html"><b>Autonomous Mobile Robots</b></a>
<li><!WA13><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Hybrid/hybrid.html"><b>Hybrid
Symbolic/Connectionist Systems</b></a> 
<li><!WA14><a href="http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/labs/CLIP/tutor.html"><b>Intelligent Tutoring
System for Arabic and Spanish</b></a> 
<li><!WA15><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Parka/parka.html"><b>Parallel Knowledge
Representation (PARKA system)</b></a> 
<li><!WA16><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/plus/Realtime/realtime.html"><b>Real-Time A.I.
Systems</b></a> 
</ul>
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<h2>Education:</h2>
<ul>
<li>PhD, Computer Science, Brown University, 1986
<li>ScM, Computer Science, Brown University, 1984
<li>MS, Psychology, Southern Methodist University, 1982
<li>BS, Computer Science, Yale University, 1978
</ul>
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<h2>Professional Activities:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical AI
<li>Associate Editor, Connection Science
<li>Editorial Board, Autonomous Robots  
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<h2>My Most Recent Book:</h2>
<ul>
<li><!WA17><a href="http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Press/Catalog/kitano.html">
<b>Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence, AAAI/MIT Press,
1994. (AAAI Press page)</b></a>
<li><!WA18><a href="http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/mitp/recent-books/comp/kitano.html">
<b>Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence, AAAI/MIT Press,
1994. (MIT Press page)</b></a>
</ul>

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<h2>Current courses:</h2>
<ul>
<li><!WA19><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler/cs422/index.html">
CMSC 422 -- Robot Programming</a>
</ul>

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<h2>Former Thesis Students:</h2>
</blockquote>
I learned much from my teachers,
more from my colleagues,
but from my students
most of all.
--- T.B. Ta'anith 7a
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<ul>
<li> Rene Bane, (MS, 1988)
<li> Joy Bush, (MS, 1988)
<li><!WA20><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/kutluhan/">Dr. Kutluhan Erol</a>(PhD, 1995)
<li><!WA21><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/evett/">Prof. Matthew Evett</a>(PhD, 1994)
<li><!WA22><a href="file://enws318.eas.asu.edu/pub/rao/rao.html">Prof. Subbarao Kambhampati</a>(PhD, 1989)
<li><!WA23><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/kettler/">Dr. Brian Kettler</a>(PhD, 1995)
<li> <!WA24><a href="http://www.isr.umd.edu/~vikram/"> Vikram Manikonda </a>
(MS, EE 1994) 
<li> Barrie Migdaloff (MS, 1995)
<li> James Sanborn (MS, 1988)
<li><!WA25><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/seeliger/"> Oliver Seeliger</a>(MS, 1995)
<li><!WA26><a href="http://hampshire.edu/~lasCCS/">Prof. Lee Spector</a>(PhD, 1992)
<li>Dr. Eduardo Ostertag (PhD, 1992)
<li>Dr. Anne Wilson (PhD, 1993)
</ul>

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<h2>Outside Interests:</h2>
<!WA27><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/Pictures/jim-scuba.gif">Scuba Diving</a>, travel, <!WA28><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/sharon.html">my daughter</a>

<h2>Today's advice:</h2>
If Austin Tate suggests you go with
him after the meeting, <!WA29><a href="http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hendler/Pictures/arpi-photo.gif"> DO IT! </a>