Jack Hodges

Jack Hodges is a Senior Research Scientist in the Siemens Web of Things group in Berkeley, where he researches information modeling and interoperability in application domains such as factory automation, vertical integration, machine-to-machine interactions, and human-robot collaboration, as well as their practical application. A common theme of his work is the use of ontologies and formal representations to ensure unambiguous definitions of terms and relations. He has been involved in conceptual modeling for over 30 years. Between 2006 and 2012 he worked at NASA Ames on various information modeling projects, pertaining mostly to command and telemetry models and interoperability between systems and organizational entities within the NASA community. He contributed to the Quantities, Units, Dimensions and Datatypes (QUDT) ontology and serves on the QUDT.org board. Jack was member of the faculty and coordinated the Artificial Intelligence specialization at San Francisco State University from 1990-2000. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering at UCLA in 1993, where he studied mechanical invention and creative problem solving in engineering. He received his Masters Degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1978 from the University of Michigan, and his Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1976. For more details, see his publications page [1]or his linked in page [2].