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. Huttenlocher was the inaugural dean and vice provost of
Cornell Tech at
Cornell University. In 2016, he was named to the board of directors of
Amazon. In February 2019, he was named by MIT to be the head of its new
Schwarzman College of Computing starting in August 2019. 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. ==Books==