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Raj Reddy

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Also known as Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy, Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy

Indian-American computer scientist

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Works
4

Top works

  • WTEC panel on digital information organization in Japan
  • Spiritual Materialist
  • Essence of Enlightenment
  • Enlightenment Made Easy

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Type
Person
Country
AU
Active from
1941-10-25
Active to
2020-09-29

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Total plays
31

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Key facts

Born
Dabbala Rajagopal Reddy , ( 1937-06-13 ) 13 June 1937 (age 88) , Katur , Madras Presidency , British India (now in Andhra Pradesh , India)
Citizenship
United States
Education
University of Madras ( BEng ), University of New South Wales ( MTech ), Stanford University ( PhD )
Awards
Legion of Honor (1984) Turing Award (1994) Padma Bhushan (2001) The Okawa Prize (2004) The Honda Prize (2005) Vannevar Bush Award (2006)
Fields
Artificial Intelligence , Robotics , Human-Computer Interaction
Institutions
IIIT Hyderabad , Carnegie Mellon University , Stanford University
Doctoral advisor
John McCarthy
Doctoral students
James K. Baker , Alexander Waibel , James Gosling , Janet M. Baker , Kai-Fu Lee , Xuedong Huang , Roni Rosenfeld , Harry Shum , Hsiao-Wuen Hon

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Early life and education

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