Raj Reddy
Indian-American computer scientist (born 1937) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. 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.[4] 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 is the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award, in 1994, known as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Born | Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy (1937-06-13) 13 June 1937 (age 86) |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of Madras (BE) University of New South Wales (MTech) Stanford University (PhD) |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial Intelligence Robotics Human-Computer Interaction |
Institutions | IIIT Hyderabad[1][2] Carnegie Mellon University Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | John McCarthy |
Doctoral students | James K. Baker Alexander Waibel James Gosling Janet M. Baker[3] Kai-Fu Lee[3] Xuedong Huang Roni Rosenfeld Harry Shum Hsiao-Wuen Hon |