Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy was born on 13 June 1937 and is an Indian-born American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award.
26 Facts About Raj Reddy
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Raj Reddy is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years.
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Raj Reddy was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Raj Reddy 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.
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Raj Reddy is the chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad.
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Raj Reddy 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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Raj Reddy was born in a Telugu family in Katur village of Chittoor district of present-day Andhra Pradesh, India.
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Raj Reddy's father, Sreenivasulu Reddy, was a farmer, and his mother, Pitchamma, was a homemaker.
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Raj Reddy was the first member of his family to attend college.
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Raj Reddy received his bachelor's degree in civil engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, then affiliated to the University of Madras, India, in 1958, and a MEng degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1960.
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Raj Reddy received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1966.
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Raj Reddy was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University from 1966 to 1969.
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Raj Reddy joined the Carnegie Mellon faculty as an associate professor of Computer Science in 1969.
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Raj Reddy became a full professor in 1973 and a university professor, in 1984.
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Raj Reddy was the founding director of the Robotics Institute from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of School of Computer Science from 1991 to 1999.
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Raj Reddy is the chairman of Governing Council of IIIT Hyderabad.
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Raj Reddy was a co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee from 1999 to 2001.
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Raj Reddy was one of the founders of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and was its president from 1987 to 1989.
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Raj Reddy served on the International board of governors of Peres Center for Peace in Israel.
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Raj Reddy served as a member of the governing councils of EMRI and HMRI which use technology-enabled solutions to provide cost-effective health care coverage to rural population in India.
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Raj Reddy proposed that a fully connected population makes it possible to think of a KG-to-PG-Online-College in every village providing personalized instruction.
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Raj Reddy proposed that recent technological advances in AI will ultimately enable anyone to watch any movie, read any textbook, and talk to anyone independent of the language of the producer or consumer.
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Raj Reddy proposed that the use of Smart Sensor Watches can be used to eliminate COVID lockdowns by monitoring the sensor data to identify and isolate people with symptoms.
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Raj Reddy is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Indian National Science Academy, and Indian National Academy of Engineering.
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Raj Reddy has been awarded honorary doctorates from SV University, Universite Henri-Poincare, University of New South Wales, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, University of Massachusetts, University of Warwick, Anna University, IIIT, Andhra University, IIT Kharagpur, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, and Carnegie Mellon University.
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Raj Reddy received Padma Bhushan, from the President of India in 2001, the Okawa Prize in 2004, the Honda Prize in 2005, and the Vannevar Bush Award in 2006.