Daniel Peter Huttenlocher is an American computer scientist, academic administrator and corporate director. He is the inaugural dean of the Schwarzman College of Computing at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

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"Dan Huttenlocher named inaugural dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing : Alumnus and founding dean of Cornell Tech in New York City will return to MIT this summer"
''MIT News Office'', February 21, 2019 Previously, he was the inaugural dean and vice provost of

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. He joined the department of computer science at Cornell in 1988, and he owned 24 patents in computer vision by 2015. Before Cornell, Huttenlocher had previously worked at the

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and was Chief Technology Officer at Intelligent Markets. He attended the

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and has an undergraduate degree from the

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and earned his master's and doctorate (1988) degrees from MIT, the latter under

Shimon Ullman Shimon Ullman (שמעון אולמן, born January 28, 1948, in Jerusalem) is a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Ullman's main research area is the study of vision processing by both humans and machines. ...

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"Amazon names Cornell Tech founding dean and Xerox veteran Daniel Huttenlocher to board"
'' GeekWire'', September 8, 2016 In February 2019, he was named by MIT to be the head of its new Schwarzman College of Computing starting in August 2019.Zafar, Maryam
"Cornell Tech Founding Dean Daniel Huttenlocher to Depart for MIT"
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'', February 21, 2019

Books

*''The Age of AI. And Our Human Future'', with Henry A. Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, Little, Brown and Company, New York, 2021

References

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