Raj Reddy

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Raj Reddy is an Indian-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned as a pioneer in artificial intelligence and robotics research.


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instanceOf Turing Award laureate
artificial intelligence researcher
computer scientist
human
robotics researcher
academicDegree Bachelor of Engineering
Master of Technology
PhD in Computer Science
awardReceived ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
Honda Prize
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
Legion of Honour
Okawa Prize
Padma Bhushan
Turing Award
Vannevar Bush Award
birthDate 1937-06-13
birthPlace Katur, Andhra Pradesh, India
countryOfCitizenship India
United States of America
doctoralAdvisor John McCarthy
educatedAt Stanford University
University of Madras
University of New South Wales
employer Carnegie Mellon University
ethnicGroup Indian-American
familyName Reddy
fieldOfWork artificial intelligence
computer science
human-computer interaction
robotics
speech recognition
givenName Raj
knownFor large-scale AI systems
pioneering work in artificial intelligence
pioneering work in robotics
speech recognition systems
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Indian National Science Academy
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
name Raj Reddy
notableStudent Andrew Ng
Takeo Kanade
notableWork CMU Robotics Institute founding
Hearsay speech understanding system
positionHeld Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Founding Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
residence Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
TuringAwardFor pioneering the design and construction of large-scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential of AI
TuringAwardYear 1994
workLocation Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America


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