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Dan Huttenlocher: Ushering In a New Era of Computing

Daniel de Wolff | MIT Industrial Liaison Program

Dan Huttenlocher is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT and the inaugural dean at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. In his role as dean, he is working to infuse computing with the other disciplines at scale, across the Institute.

dan huttenlocher standing in his office wearing a blue shirt and smiling

Daniel de Wolff | MIT Industrial Liaison Program
October 24, 2022

Dan Huttenlocher serves as the inaugural Dean at MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. To highlight the significance of this moment in time, and the need for an interdisciplinary computing hub like the College of Computing, he references the oft-cited prediction that software would gobble up and disrupt traditional industry structures. Huttenlocher believes that while this insight was right, what we’re experiencing now is something different, greater, with vast implications for humanity. Computing on the whole—not only software but also hardware, algorithms, and machine learning— has evolved to the point where it is redefining our approach to problem solving in nearly every industry sector, discipline, and area of research. This, he suggests, is also redefining reality as we experience it.

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