PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Daniel Huttenlocher

Also known as Dan Huttenlocher, Daniel P. Huttenlocher

Daniel Huttenlocher is a computer scientist whose AI research includes computer vision and object recognition. He earned a bachelor's degree at Michigan in 1980 and MIT graduate degrees in 1984 and 1988 while researching speech recognition, object recognition, and computer vision. At Cornell, he joined the computer-science faculty and worked at Xerox PARC; he presented an efficient object-recognition approach in 1999 and co-founded Intelligent Markets in 2000. He received the Longuet-Higgins Award for computer-vision contributions in 2010, became Cornell Tech's founding dean and vice provost in 2012, coauthored The Age of AI and Our Human Future in 2021, and joined the launch of an MIT–MBZUAI AI research program in October 2025. As of October 2026, he is dean of MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing.

Works
158
Citations
32,128
h-index
40

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Daniel Huttenlocher

Timeline

  1. 1980–1988

    Studying AI and perception

    He earns a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan in 1980, double-majoring in computer and communication sciences and experimental psychology. At MIT, he studies AI and earns a master's in 1984 and a PhD in computer science in 1988 while researching speech recognition, object recognition, and computer vision.

  2. 1988

    Joining Cornell and PARC

    In 1988, he joins Cornell's computer science faculty and takes a position at Xerox PARC. He works at PARC as a scientist.

  3. 1999–2010

    Recognizing pictorial structures

    In 1999, he presents an efficient approach to recognizing objects using pictorial structures. In 2010, he receives the Longuet-Higgins Award for Fundamental Advances in Computer Vision.

  4. 2000

    Co-founding Intelligent Markets

    In 2000, he co-founds Intelligent Markets, a financial technology company.

  5. 2012

    Founding Cornell Tech

    In 2012, he becomes Cornell Tech's founding dean and vice provost.

  6. 2021

    The Age of AI

    With Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, he coauthors “The Age of AI: And Our Human Future,” published in November 2021.

  7. October 2025

    An AI research partnership

    In October 2025, he joins the signing ceremony that launches the MIT–MBZUAI Collaborative Research Program. The program unites faculty and students to advance AI and apply it to scientific and societal challenges.

  8. Since 2019

    Dean at MIT

    In 2019, MIT names him inaugural dean of the Schwarzman College of Computing. In 2026, he is dean of the college.

Sources and credits

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  1. Dan Huttenlocher ponders our human future in an age of artificial intelligence eecs.mit.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Dan Huttenlocher named inaugural dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing computing.mit.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Robotics Institute: Seminar, December 3, 1999: Daniel Huttenlocher cs.cmu.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Cornell Tech - Daniel P. Huttenlocher tech.cornell.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. Daniel Huttenlocher computing.mit.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and MBZUAI launch international collaboration to shape the future of AI computing.mit.edu. Checked 14 October 2026.