Daniel Huttenlocher
Born
Daniel Peter Huttenlocher

1959 (age 64–65)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan (BA)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)[1]
OccupationAcademic administrator
EmployerMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forInaugural Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Inaugural Dean and Vice Provost, Cornell Tech (2012–2019)

Daniel Peter Huttenlocher[2] 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 (MIT).[3] Prior to this, he notably served as the inaugural dean of Cornell Tech at Cornell University, and as a member of Amazon's board of directors.[4]

Much of Huttenlocher's research has centered on artificial intelligence (AI), and collaborated with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the book The Age of A.I. And Our Human Future (2021).[5]

Early life and education

Huttenlocher was born in 1959. Huttenlocher's father was a neurologist at the University of Chicago Medical School, and his mother was a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of Chicago.[5]

He attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools and has an undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. He earned his master's and doctorate (1988) degrees from MIT, the latter under Shimon Ullman.[6]

Career

Huttenlocher previously worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and was Chief Technology Officer at Intelligent Markets. He joined the department of computer science at Cornell in 1988, and he owned 24 patents in computer vision by 2015.[7] Huttenlocher was the inaugural dean and vice provost of Cornell Tech at Cornell University.[4][8] In 2016, he was named to the board of directors of Amazon.[9]

In February 2019, he was named by MIT to be the head of its new Schwarzman College of Computing starting in August 2019.[10][3]

The Age of A.I. And Our Human Future

In 2021, Huttenlocher co-authored The Age of AI. And Our Human Future alongside former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.[5] The book argued that advances in artificial intelligence (AI) stood to result in widespread social changes across human society, and discussed whether humans were ready for such changes.[11]

In 2023, Huttenlocher, Kissinger, and Schmidt reunited to author an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, where they argued that advances in AI technologies could potentially be compared in importance to the invention of the printing press.[12]

Books

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

References

  1. ↑ "Daniel P. Huttenlocher", Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ "Daniel Peter Huttenlocher | people.as.cornell.edu". people.as.cornell.edu. Archived from the original on 2023-01-04. Retrieved 2023-01-04.
  3. 1 2 Matheson, Rob, "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
  4. 1 2 "DANIEL P. HUTTENLOCHER JACK AND RILLA NEAFSEY DEAN AND VICE PROVOST, CORNELL TECH". Cornell Tech. Cornell University. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Zewe, Adam (2022-04-03). "Dan Huttenlocher ponders our human future in an age of artificial intelligence". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  6. ↑ Soperm Taylor, "Amazon names Cornell Tech founding dean and Xerox veteran Daniel Huttenlocher to board", GeekWire, September 8, 2016
  7. ↑ Kompanek, Christopher (August 21, 2015). "The professor leading New York City's answer to MIT". Financial Times. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Interview with Michael Bloomberg"
  9. ↑ Soper, Taylor (2016-09-08). "Amazon names Cornell Tech founding dean and Xerox veteran Daniel Huttenlocher to board". GeekWire. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  10. ↑ Zafar, Maryam, "Cornell Tech Founding Dean Daniel Huttenlocher to Depart for MIT", The Cornell Daily Sun, February 21, 2019
  11. ↑ Bove, Tristan (2023-05-08). "Henry Kissinger says he wants to call attention to the dangers of A.I. the same way he did for nuclear weapons but warns it's a 'totally new problem'". Fortune. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  12. ↑ Shephard, Alex (2023-03-01). "Artificial Intelligence Is Dumb". The New Republic. ISSN 0028-6583. Retrieved 2023-11-30.


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