Financial Times: The Professor Leading New York City’s Answer to MIT

Dean Dan Huttenlocher was recently interviewed by the Financial Times in his Ithaca home about his life, research and role as the founding dean of Cornell Tech.

Ever since Huttenlocher joined the Cornell faculty he has juggled teaching with research, and he currently holds 24 US patents for his work in computer vision — the field of turning images into numerical and symbolic information. In the early days he took a job at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto during the summer months and winter breaks, and during his eight years there, he helped write the code for the ISO JBIG2 image-compression standard software that’s still used in the company’s digital copiers and printers.

He is now focusing his interest and energies on the tech campus. “I pinch myself regularly in this job,” he says excitedly of Cornell’s newest school (and its second in New York City after their medical school and research hospital). 

Read the full article in the Financial Times.