Raj Reddy
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| Born | June 13, 1937 Katoor, India |
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| Field | Artificial Intelligence Robotics Human-Computer Interaction |
| Institution | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Notable prizes | Turing Award 1994 Honda Prize 2005 Vannevar Bush Award 2006 |
Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937 in Katoor, India, near Chennai) is a world-renowned researcher in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Human-Computer Interaction.
After his undergraduate studies at the College of Engineering, Guindy (now part of Anna University) in 1958, he did a master's degree in Civil Engineering at the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1966. He was the first doctoral student to graduate at Stanford under Turing Award winner and AI pioneer, John McCarthy (computer scientist).
Among many awards, he received the Turing Award with Edward Feigenbaum in 1994, the most prestigious prize in Computer Science, "For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology". Evenmore, he is also a fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE and AAAI. He received the IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award in 2005, the IBM Research Ralph Gomory Visiting Scholar Award in 1991, and more recently, the Honda Prize for his "Contributions to eco-technology" in 2005. Most recently, he received the 2006 Vannevar Bush Award given by the National Science Board "...in recognition of his contributions to science and his statesmanship on behalf of science and the nation...".
Reddy is currently the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University; he was formerly the Herbert Simon University Professor there. The several institutes at Carnegie Mellon founded under his initiation include the Robotics Institute, the E-Commerce Technologies Institute, and the Institute of Software Research International. He is also the chairman, Governing Board of IIIT Hyderabad.
Reddy also served as a co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) for Bill Clinton and led the formation of AAAI. He also serves on the Microsoft Technical Advisory Board, the Board of Directors at 3Com. Furthermore, Reddy was the first director of Carnegie Mellon University West and one of the first members on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.
Reddy was awarded the Padma Bhushan by India in 2001 and the Legion of Honor by President François Mitterrand of France in 1984.
Currently, Reddy is working on the PCtvt (PC, TV, PVR, Video Phone) for use by illiterate people in rural environments as an information appliance.
Throughout his academic career, Reddy has been the thesis adviser for many successful graduate students at Carnegie Mellon including James K. Baker (Founder, Dragon Systems Inc.), Kai-Fu Lee (Head, Google China), and Harry Shum (Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia).
[edit] External links and references
- Raj Reddy's webpage at CMU
- Raj Reddy's talk at Standard about PCtvt (Quicktime)
- Raj Reddy - KurzweilAI's Big Thinkers
- Reddy receives Honda Prize - CMU release
- Raj Reddy talking about the Robotics Institute in 1986 episode of Computer Chronicles
- Raj Reddy receives 2006 Vannevar Bush Award for Lifetime Contributions to Science
1966: Perlis • 67: Wilkes • 68: Hamming • 69: Minsky
1970: Wilkinson • 71: McCarthy • 72: Dijkstra • 73: Bachman • 74: Knuth • 75: Newell, Simon • 76: Rabin, Scott • 77: Backus • 78: Floyd • 79: Iverson
1980: Hoare • 81: Codd • 82: Cook • 83: Thompson, Ritchie • 84: Wirth • 85: Karp • 86: Hopcroft, Tarjan • 87: Cocke • 88: Sutherland • 89: Kahan
1990: Corbató • 91: Milner • 92: Lampson • 93: Hartmanis, Stearns • 94: Feigenbaum, Reddy • 95: Blum • 96: Pnueli • 97: Engelbart • 98: Gray • 99: Brooks
2000: Yao • 01: Dahl, Nygaard • 02: Rivest, Shamir, Adleman • 03: Kay • 04: Cerf, Kahn • 05: Naur • 06: Allen
