Raj Reddy

Who is this?

Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born 13 June 1937) 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.

Career

1. 1937
   Born
2. 1984
   Won Knight of the Legion of Honour
3. 1990
   Won AAAI Fellow
4. 1994
   Won Turing Award
5. 2001
   Won Padma Bhushan in science & engineering
6. 2004
   Won Okawa Prize
7. Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
8. Member of National Academy of Engineering
9. Member of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Katur
• •Citizenship: British Raj, India
• •Known as: computer scientist, university teacher, artificial intelligence researcher
• •Spouse: anuradha