- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 23:39:57 -0500
- To: Yoko SEKI <y-seki@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>, martin.chapman@oracle.com, steve@enigmatec.net, ylafon@w3.org, hugo@w3.org
- Cc: public-ws-chor@w3.org, yamagi_t@itg.hitachi.co.jp
Hello, I'm Jim Hendler, and since I am the AC rep for my
organization (the Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at
the University of Maryland) I guess I will also be in this working
group.
My own background arises primarily through involvement in the
Semantic Web, I coauthored the Scientific American article of that
name with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila, and have been doing Sem
Web research since the mid-90s. In the web services arena, I've been
interested in the interaction of Semantics and Web services for a
long time. From about 1999-2001 I worked at the US Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) where I was chief scientist for
information systems and ran some prograns in "agent-based computing"
- these were generally related to service-based computing, including
the CoABS project whcih did service-based middleware, and the DARPA
Agent Markup Language (DAML) program, which gave rise to the DAML-S
work mentioned in our charter. Currently I am cochair of the W3C Web
Ontology Working Group, which hopes to bring our language (OWL) to
Last Call in the next couple of weeks, and I also serve on the
Semantic Web Coordination Group. In between telecons, I also manage
to run a research group [1], which is working in the dynamic
composition of services using semantics.
I agree to participate per the charter
http://www.w3.org/2003/01/wscwg-charter
last revised 2003/01/14
I do not have personal knowledge of any IPR claims held by the MIND Lab
regarding Web services choreography.
[1] http://www.mindswap.org
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Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu
Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696
Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax)
Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell)
http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
Received on Monday, 20 January 2003 23:40:14 UTC