The Age of AI: THE BOOK WE ALL NEED

About Daniel HuttenlocherEric SchmidtHenry A KissingerIII

Henry Kissinger served as the 56th Secretary of State from September 1973 until January 1977. He was a member of the Defense Policy Board and the Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc. an international consulting fi rm. Dr. Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Medal of Liberty in 1986. Eric Schmidt is a technologist entrepreneur and philanthropist. Joining the founders of Google in 2001 he helped grow the company from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology first as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman and later as Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. In 2021 he founded the Special Competitive Studies Project a non-profit initiative to strengthen America's long-term competitiveness in AI and technology. Most recently he and his wife Wendy co-founded Schmidt Sciences a nonprofit organization working to advance science and technology that deepens human understanding of the natural world and develops solutions to global issues. Daniel Huttenlocher is the inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Previously he helped found Cornell Tech the digital technology oriented graduate school created by Cornell University in New York City and served as its first Dean and Vice Provost. His research and teaching have been recognized by a number of awards including ACM Fellow and CASE Professor of the Year. He has a mix of academic and industry background having been a Computer Science faculty member at Cornell researcher and manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and CTO of a fintech startup. He currently serves as the board chair of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and as a member of the board of Corning Inc. and Amazon.com. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and master's and doctorate from MIT.