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Raj Reddy
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Indian-American computer scientist
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Raj Reddy is a male computer scientist and university teacher born in 1937. He has held citizenship in the British Raj, India, and the United States. His professional work focuses on artificial intelligence, robotics, and human–computer interaction. He has been employed by Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University.
Reddy received a Turing Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. He was educated at Stanford University and the University of New South Wales. His doctoral advisor was John McCarthy. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and the Indian National Science Academy.
His doctoral students include Kai-Fu Lee and James Gosling. Reddy has an Erdős number of 5. He is recognized in collections for the Turing Award and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His works include the WTEC panel on digital information organization in Japan and titles such as Spiritual Materialist.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- WTEC panel on digital information organization in Japan
- Spiritual Materialist
- Essence of Enlightenment
- Enlightenment Made Easy
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 29
- Total plays
- 31
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,455x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,422x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems
· 2019 · cited 9,160x
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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Employer
- Stanford University
- Award
- ACM Fellow
- Doctoral advisor
- John McCarthy
- Field of work
- human–computer interaction
- Official website
- www.rr.cs.cmu.edu
- Image
- ProfReddys Photo Cropped.jpg
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- Commons category
- Raj Reddy
- date of birth
- 1937-06-13
- Erdős number
- 5
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- name in native language
- Raj Reddy
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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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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