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Daniel Huttenlocher, the Neafsey Professor of Computing, Information Science, and Business at Cornell University, will deliver a public lecture and present two seminars on various computer science topics Sept. 20-21.
The lecture entitled, “Computational Social Science: Large-Scale Studies of Wikis, Blogs and Social Networking Sites” will be 8 p.m. Sept. 20 in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104. There will be a reception following the lecture.
Huttenlocher will also make two seminar presentations. On Thurs. at 12:15 p.m. Sept. 20 in Pardee Hall room 201, he will discuss “Distance Transforms and Representing Spatial Proximity” and at 12:10 p.m. Sept. 21 in Acopian Engineering Center room 500, he will present “Large-Scale Online Social Networks,” which will serve as an extension of his lecture.
Huttenlocher’s research interests are in computer vision, online social networks, electronic collaboration tools, computational geometry, and financial trading systems. Recipient of a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1990, he was named the New York State Professor of the Year by CASE in 1993 and was honored as a Weiss Fellow by Cornell in 1996 for excellence in teaching.
He holds 24 U.S. patents and has published more than 60 technical papers. In addition to academic positions, he has been chief technology officer of Intelligent Markets, a provider of advanced trading systems on Wall Street, and he spent more than 10 years at Xerox PARC, where he directed work that led to the ISO JBIG2 image-compression standard. He earned his Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1988 and a B.S. from the University of Michigan in 1980.
Huttenlocher’s visit to Lafayette is made possible by the Visiting Scholar Program of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest academic honor society.
The Lafayette chapter of Phi Beta Kappa thanks the Office of the Provost, the computer science department, the mathematics department, and Libraries and Information Technology Services for supporting Huttenlocher’s visit.