Daniel P. Huttenlocher

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Daniel Peter "Dan" Huttenlocher (* 1958 ) is an American computer scientist and professor of computer science and economics .

Life

Daniel Huttenlocher is the son of the neuropediatrist and neuroscientist Peter Huttenlocher and the developmental psychologist Janellen Huttenlocher . He graduated from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in both computer science and psychology. He received his master's degree in computer science from MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1984 , where he also received his doctorate in 1988 .

Huttenlocher then became a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca (New York State). There he held a double professorship, on the one hand as professor of computer science at the Computer Science Department and on the other as professor of economics at the Johnson Graduate School of Management . Since 2012 he has organized the construction of the new Cornell Tech Campus in New York City as its dean and deputy head .

In 2019 Huttenlocher returned to MIT to lead the establishment of the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing as founding dean . The college aims to provide an interdisciplinary education in the field of artificial intelligence.

Huttenlocher was also active in the private sector beyond the university. His research in the field of computer vision led to a collaboration with the company Xerox in their research center Xerox PARC in Palo Alto in 1992 . There he led the development of the JBIG 2 standard for lossless compression of digital images. In 2002 he became Technical Director of Intelligent Markets , a company founded by his brother Carl in San Francisco , where he particularly contributed his knowledge of computerized trading systems .

Huttenlocher serves on the board of directors of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Furthermore, Huttenlocher is a member of the board of directors of various companies: since 2015 of the glass manufacturer Corning and since 2016 of the online mail order company Amazon .

Scientific achievements

Huttenlocher was already working in the field of automatic speech recognition as a student . As a professor, his research areas are computer visualistic topics in computer science: computer vision and algorithmic geometry . He is one of the leading experts here and holds 24 US patents (2006). Further research areas are the development of interactive document technologies and computer-aided trading systems .

Huttenlocher developed a. a the following IT processes and systems:

The Huttenlocher-Zue model of lexical access

As early as 1984, Huttenlocher worked with Victor W. Zue as part of the research for his master's thesis to develop a two-step process for speech recognition ( Huttenlocher-Zu lexical access model ). In a first pass, it first determines a list of word candidates through a selection from a lexical index according to main linguistic features. Within this list, the corresponding word is selected in a second pass through a detailed phonetic analysis.

CoNote

In collaboration with Jim Davis , Huttenlocher developed a system for commenting (annotating) www documents in 1994 with CoNote . It was originally intended as a student discussion forum for lecture notes and exercises published on the Internet. With the CoNote system, the comments inserted by the user are not saved in the document itself, but on a proxy server .

The Felzenszwalb-Huttenlocher algorithm

In 1998, together with Pedro F. Felzenszwalb , Huttenlocher published an edge-oriented algorithm for segmenting images ( Felzenszwalb-Huttenlocher algorithm ), which they later developed further .

See main article Felzenszwalb-Huttenlocher algorithm

Awards

Huttenlocher is not only successful in research, he has also received numerous awards for his teaching activities. So he was u. a. Honored as Professor of the Year in New York State in 1993.

For his contributions to computer vision, Huttenlocher was made a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2007.

Fonts (selection)

  • D. Huttenlocher, V. Zue: A model of lexical access from partial phonetic information . In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing . IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC 1984, Volume 9, pp. 391-394
  • J. Davis, D. Huttenlocher: Shared annotation for cooperative learning . In: Proceedings for Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning , 1995
  • P. Felzenszwalb, D. Huttenlocher: Image segmentation using local variation . In: Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition , IEEE Computer Society, Washington DC 1998, ISBN 0-8186-8497-6 , p. 98.
  • P. Felzenszwalb, D. Huttenlocher: Efficient graph-based image segmentation . International Journal of Computer Vision 2004, Volume 59, pp. 167-181
  • H. Kissinger , E. Schmidt , D. Huttenlocher: The Metamorphosis . In: The Atlantic . August 2019

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dan Huttenlocher named inaugural dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. In: MIT News. February 21, 2019, accessed on August 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ WITH reshapes itself to shape the future. In: MIT News. October 12, 2018, accessed August 14, 2019 .
  3. ^ MacArthur Foundation: Board of Directors. In: MacArthur Foundation website. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Diversified Consumer Services: Company Overview of Cornell Tech - Executive Profile: Daniel P. Huttenlocher. In: bloomberg.com. Retrieved November 5, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Huttenlocher, Daniel P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huttenlocher, Daniel Peter (full name); Huttenlocher, Dan (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist and professor of computer science and economics
DATE OF BIRTH 1958