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Raj Reddy

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy is an Indian-born American computer scientist

1937 – presentIndiaContribution: 1994

Introduction

Raj Reddy (born 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and recipient of the Turing Award. He has made significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and speech recognition. Reddy's work on voice recognition systems and language understanding has had a profound impact on the development of intelligent systems and human-computer interaction.

Key Achievement

Pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology.

Biography

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy is an Indian-born American computer scientist. He is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years. He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He was the founding chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He and Edward Feigenbaum won the 1994 ACM Turing Award, sometimes known as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for their work in the field of artificial intelligence. Reddy was the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award.

Did You Know?

  • He and Edward Feigenbaum won the 1994 ACM Turing Award, sometimes known as the Nobel Prize of computer science, for their work in the field of artificial intelligence.
  • Reddy was the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award.

Awards

Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America1979
Knight of the Legion of Honour1984
AAAI Fellow1990
Turing Award1994
honorary doctorate of the Henri Poincaré University1997
Padma Bhushan in science & engineering2001
Okawa Prize2004
ACM Fellow2012
Guggenheim Fellowship
IEEE Fellow
IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award

Institutions

Carnegie Mellon University

Stanford University

Education

Guindy Engineering College

Bachelor of Engineering

1958

Stanford University

Doctor of Philosophy

1966

University of New South Wales

master's degree