Introduction
Daniel J. Clancy (New Orleans, 11 January 1964) is an American technologist and computer scientist.He was the Engineering Director for Google Book Search from 2005 to early 2014. From February 2014 he has worked for the social networking service Nextdoor.
Life and work
Clancy received a BA in computer science and theatre from Duke University in 1985. He has a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Texas at Austin. While in school, Clancy later worked at Trilogy and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Clancy was director of the Exploration Technologies Directorate at NASA Ames Research Center.
While working with Google, Clancy took an active role in the Google Book Search class action settlement, and has been a spokesperson for Google in public statements about the settlement.