Eric Schmidt to join MIT as visiting innovation fellow

Today, MIT President L. Rafael Reif announced that Eric Schmidt, who until January was the executive chairman of Google's parent company, Alphabet, will join MIT as a visiting innovation fellow for one year, starting in Spring. Schmidt will figure prominently in MIT's plans to bring human and machine intelligence to the next level, serving as an advisor to the newly launched MIT Intelligence Quest, an Institute-wide initiative to pursue hard problems on the horizon of intelligence research. "I am thrilled that Dr. Schmidt will be joining us," says MIT President L. Rafael Reif. "As MIT IQ seeks to shape transformative new technologies to serve society, Eric's brilliant strategic and tactical insight, organizational creativity, and exceptional technical judgment will be a tremendous asset. And for our students, his experience in driving some of the most important innovations of our time will serve as an example and an inspiration."