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Huttenlocher \u2013 Former Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and Computer Science Expert \u2013 Will Co-Lead Cornell NYC Tech Campus on Roosevelt Island with Cathy Dove; Technion Professor Craig Gotsman Will Be Founding Director of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute<\/h2>\nMayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced that Professor Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cornell University\u2019s Dean of Computing and Information Sciences, has been named Cornell Vice Provost and founding Dean of the university\u2019s historic tech campus, home of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute. Cathy Dove, currently associate dean in Cornell\u2019s College of Engineering, will co-lead the campus as Vice President, and Technion Professor Craig Gotsman will serve as the founding director of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute. Mayor Bloomberg made the announcement at the headquarters of Tumblr, one of the City\u2019s fastest-growing technology companies, was joined by Tumblr CEO David Karp, Dean Huttenlocher, Cathy Dove, New York City Economic President Seth Pinsky, Chief Digital Officer Rachel Sterne, Office of Media & Entertainment Commissioner Katherine Oliver and representatives from Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter, Bitly and YouTube.<\/p>\n
\u201cNew York City is quickly becoming the center of the digital universe, and today\u2019s announcements will help us get there,\u201d said Mayor Bloomberg. \u201cWith this fantastic leadership team in place, the tech campus will help us attract and develop more talent to energize our growing tech sector. And our social media platforms will give New Yorkers the information they need on the channels they want to use.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDan Huttenlocher and Cathy Dove have employed their extensive knowledge and expertise, as well as their acknowledged leadership skills, during every step of the development and promotion of our proposal, and they continue to drive our effort to bring the new campus to fruition for the people of New York,\u201d said Cornell University President David Skorton. \u201cAnd the addition of Professor Craig Gotsman as director of the campus\u2019s Techion-Cornell Innovation Institute brings added luster to this impressive team. Cornell, Technion and the city are very lucky to have such talented people leading our exciting new campus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Huttenlocher, Dove and Gotsman were instrumental in formulating and promoting the winning proposal and working with the city during the selection process for the new state-of-the-art graduate campus, to be operated in partnership with the Technion \u2013 Israel Institute of Technology. Inaugural instruction will begin in off-site locations in the city in September of this year, with groundbreaking scheduled for 2015 and on-campus operations slated to begin in 2017. Huttenlocher and Dove will oversee the formation of the environmentally sustainable campus, whose operational costs are expected to exceed $2 billion over 30 years; the building of the campus\u2019s expert faculty, planned to be about 280 strong in 30 years; its highly selective graduate student population, targeted at about 2,500 by 2043; as well as capital construction of the 2 million square-foot campus. The campus\u2019s innovative academic \u201chub\u201d concept, which Huttenlocher helped develop, will feature curriculum and research organized across multiple disciplines and directed toward particular sectors of New York City\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n
As dean, Huttenlocher will have overall responsibility for all programmatic aspects of the new campus, including responsibility for the academic quality and direction of the campus\u2019s hubs and their evolution over time. He will develop strategic plans for the most effective ways of working with companies and early stage investors in New York City, and he will lead the campus\u2019 faculty recruitment and entrepreneurial initiatives. He also will serve as a member of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute Joint Governance Board and oversee the Tech Campus Advisory Committee. Huttenlocher will report to Cornell\u2019s provost, work closely with Cornell\u2019s deans, including Cornell Engineering Dean Lance Collins, and he will serve as a member of Cornell\u2019s senior leadership team. He also will retain his post as Cornell\u2019s CIS dean, until a new dean is appointed.<\/p>\n
\u00a0As the Vice President for the new tech campus, Dove will be responsible for all development, outreach and operational aspects of the campus, including areas such as human resources, external and student relations, development and facilities, IT, marketing and communications, finances and outreach. She will serve as the campus\u2019s lead on its facility construction team, oversee corporate relations, student services and lead community outreach and programming, including K-12 programs. She will report to Cornell\u2019s provost, will lead the Operating Committee, and she will serve as a member of Cornell\u2019s senior leadership team. Gotsman will lead the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute (TCII), a centerpiece of the Roosevelt Island campus, as its founding director. The TCII will confer dual Cornell\/Technion Masters of Applied Sciences degrees, based on a curriculum with a unique emphasis on the application of sciences, entrepreneurship and management.<\/p>\n
\u201cCornell and the Technion have outlined ambitious plans for a world-class applied sciences campus in the heart of New York City, and executing on those plans will require outstanding academic leaders like Daniel Huttenlocher, Cathy Dove and Craig Gotsman,\u201d Deputy Mayor Steel said. \u201cCongratulations to Presidents Skorton and Lavie and the entire Cornell and Technion communities on the selection of the NYC Tech leadership team.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the selection of Cornell and the Technion, we were fortunate to find the perfect partners – two world-class institutions which together shared our vision of how to change the City\u2019s economy forever,\u201d said New York City Economic Development Corporation President Pinsky. \u201cTo fulfill this bold vision will require strong leadership, and there are no leaders better equipped for this challenge than Dan Huttenlocher, Cathy Dove and Craig Gotsman. With this team at the helm, the NYCTech campus will soon begin creating the new technologies and businesses that will ensure our place as the undisputed world capital of innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome the appointments of Professor Dan Huttenlocher and Cathy Dove, to which we add that of Technion Professor Craig Gotsman as Founding Director of the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute,\u201d said Peretz Lavie, President of the Technion. \u201cWe have complete faith that this team can and will efficiently and professionally promote the ambitious program we have planned for New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an unprecedented opportunity to build a new kind of university campus, focused on technology commercialization rooted in the very best academic research, with educational programs that tie fundamentals to practice, and strong ties to the tech sector of the city’s economy,\u201d said Huttenlocher. \u201cWe are already actively working towards identifying leased space for the start-up phase before we move to Roosevelt Island, gaining approvals for degree programs, involving local tech leaders in our planning, and preparing to hire world class faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am incredibly honored to be able to contribute to this game-changing enterprise that will have such a great impact on Cornell, the Technion and New York City,\u201d said Dove. \u201cIt is especially meaningful to me as a Cornell alumna, who has always believed that Cornell should have a significant presence in New York City. I\u2019m looking forward to working closely, not only with our faculty, staff and students, but with companies, alumni, our Technion partners and our New York City and Roosevelt Island neighbors. There is a lot of work to do, but I\u2019m excited to be moving forward toward our shared goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute will be dedicated to fulfilling Mayor Bloomberg\u2019s far-reaching vision for the future of New York City as the high-tech capital of the world. The TCII will become a fertile breeding ground for engineers, innovators and entrepreneurs who will contribute to the city\u2019s tech ecosystem, even before they graduate. The Technion is confident that its experience in building the Israeli high-tech sector will serve it well in New York City. Having a local partner as distinguished as Cornell University, can only guarantee a runaway success,\u201d said Prof. Gotsman.<\/p>\n
\u201cDan Huttenlocher\u2019s leadership has taken Cornell\u2019s Computing and Information Science department to new heights as one of the top programs in the world,\u201d said Eric Grimson, chancellor of MIT. \u201cDan has a keen sense of how research and education can drive entrepreneurship and innovation, and I can think of no one better to lead the new tech campus going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cDan Huttenlocher is an inspired choice to lead the new tech campus as he has excelled in both the academic world and the entrepreneurial world,\u201d said Jeff Hawkins, Founder of Numenta, Palm, and Handspring. \u201cThe Tech Campus\u2019 mission is to train the engineers and innovators who will continue to fuel New York City\u2019s rise as a global technology leader. Knowing Dan and his talents I can think of no one better suited to achieve that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDan is the rare academic leader who knows not only how to cultivate great engineers and innovators, but also understands both the social and technical sides of tech entrepreneurship from his own years of experience working in the tech sector,\u201d said John Seely Brown, Former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corp and past Director of its Palo Alto Research Center said.\u00a0\u201cDan is a brilliant choice to lead the new tech campus forward as its founding Dean, and I am confident that his students and New York City itself will benefit from his unique approach.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDan Huttenlocher is the perfect choice to lead the new technology campus,\u201d said Rob Cook, VP of Advanced Technology, Pixar (Emeritus). \u201cToday\u2019s engineers need both an excellent education in technology and the practical business skills to make a difference in the real world. Dan excels in both areas: he is a brilliant and innovative academic researcher and also a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I\u2019m confident that with Dan as its founding dean, the campus will become renowned for producing technology leaders.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to his post as Cornell\u2019s dean of CIS, Huttenlocher holds the John P. and Rilla Neafsey Chair in Computing, Information Science and Business. He has been on the faculty at Cornell since 1988, leaving at various times to work in industry, including at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center , where he founded the Image Understanding Group and served on the senior management team, and at Intelligent Markets, a small financial technologies firm where he served as Chief Technology Officer. While his academic interests are rooted in computer science, particularly computer vision, he has worked in a number of other domains including autonomous vehicles, competing in the DARPA Urban Challenge, and analysis of online social networks. He has taught in both the Department of Computer Science and the MBA program at Cornell, and he has been recognized on several occasions for his excellence in teaching, including as the New York State Professor of the year in 1993 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, and as a Stephen H. Weiss Fellow at Cornell in 1996. He has published a number of award winning scientific papers, was named a Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation in 1990, and was honored as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2007. In 1998-99, Huttenlocher chaired the Cornell Task Force on Computing and Information Science, which led to the creation of CIS, for which he was Cornell\u2019s second dean. In 2005-06, he also chaired Cornell\u2019s Task Force on Wisdom in the Age of Digital Information. Huttenlocher currently serves on the board of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. He received his bachelor\u2019s degree at the University of Michigan and his master\u2019s and doctorate at MIT.<\/p>\n
Dove most recently was associate dean in the Cornell College of Engineering. Previously she served as Associate Dean for MBA Programs and Administration at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University and also served as director of Financial Management Services for the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Throughout her tenure at Cornell, Dove has served on or led a number of institutional initiatives \u2013 most recently as co-chair of the university\u2019s Budget Model Task Force. Prior to her arrival at Cornell, she served as Assistant Town Manager for Arlington, Mass.; as a financial analyst and marketing planner for Eli Lilly & Co.; and as a manager of Engineering Systems and Development for Anaren Inc. \u00a0She holds a B.S. from Georgetown University, an MBA from Cornell, and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
Prof. Gotsman joined the Technion in 1992. As Associate Dean for External Relations, he founded and led the Computer Science faculty\u2019s Industrial Affiliates Program, a successful platform for promoting academic-industrial cooperation. In this capacity he conceived and developed an \u201cIndustrial Project\u201d course, which allows students to perform software projects offered and supervised by industrial experts; and the \u201cLapidim\u201d study program, which identifies and nurtures the next generation of high-tech leaders. He has founded and ran two start-up companies, one based on technology he developed at the Technion, and has consulted for numerous Fortune 100 companies. Prof. Gotsman holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was a visiting professor at Harvard University and ETH Zurich, and a research scientist at MIT. He has published more than 150 papers in the professional literature and has been awarded five U.S. patents.<\/p>\n
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