Professor Jim Hendler received the 2025 Edward Feigenbaum Prize in Artificial Intelligence, awarded by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, recognizing a sustained record of high-impact seminal contributions to experimental AI research, specifically “for groundbreaking contributions to knowledge representation, planning, and the Semantic Web.” Dr. Hendler is the Tetherless World Professor of Computing. Web and Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Hendler is an expert in artificial intelligence, with special expertise including linked-data and Semantic Web (work begun during his Fulbright fellowship in Israel), open scientific and government data sharing, and machine learning. His work in AI and Machine learning have produced over 450 books and papers in his nearly 50 years of AI experience and he has been recognized as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the British Computer Society (BCS), and the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration.