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Raj Reddy
Raj Reddy
	File:Rajreddy.jpg Raj Reddy(Right) receiving Vannevar Bush Award from Kenneth M. Ford(Left)
Born	June 13, 1937 (age 87); Katur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Alma mater	College of Engineering, Guindy ; University of New South Wales ; Stanford University
Awards	Legion of Honor, France 1984; Turing Award 1994; Padma Bhushan, India 2001; Okawa Prize 2004; Honda Prize, Japan 2005; Vannevar Bush Award 2006
	Scientific career
Fields	Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Human-Computer Interaction
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University; Stanford; IIIT Hyderabad; Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies
Doctoral advisor	John McCarthy
Doctoral students	James K. Baker ; Kai-Fu Lee ; Harry Shum ; James Gosling

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Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy (born June 13, 1937) a Turing Award winner, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)^[1] for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at CMU. 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 is also the Chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He is also the only Indian to win the Turing Award.

Early life

Raj Reddy was born in Katur, Andhra Pradesh, India. He received a BE degree from the College of Engineering, Guindy (now part of Anna University), India in 1958 and a MTech degree in Civil Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1960. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1966. He was the first doctoral student to graduate at Stanford under Turing Award winner and AI pioneer, John McCarthy.

Career

Reddy is the Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1960-63, Reddy worked as an Applied Science Representative for IBM Corp., in Australia. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford from 1966-69. He joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in 1969. He became a Full Professor in 1973, and a University Professor in 1984.

He served as the founding Director of the Robotics Institute from 1979 to 1991 and as the Dean of School of Computer Science from 1991 to 1999. As a Dean of SCS, he was instrumental in creating Language Technologies Institute, Human Computer Interaction Institute, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (since renamed as Department of Machine Learning), and Institute for Software Research. He is the Chairman of Governing Council of IIIT Hyderabad and he is the Chancellor and the Chairman of Governing Council of Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, India.

Research

Reddy’s early research was conducted at the AI labs at Stanford, first as a graduate student and later as an Assistant Professor, and at CMU since 1969. His AI research concentrated on perceptual and motor aspect of intelligence such as speech, language, vision and robotics. In speech, he and his colleagues developed large vocabulary connected speech recognition system named Hearsay and Harpy as part of the DARPA speech understanding research program. Since then the CMU team has been responsible for many advances in speech research and the graduates from CMU went on to become leaders in the field.

His other major research interest has been in exploring the role of “Technology in Service of Society”. An early attempt in this area was the establishment, in 1981, of “Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaines” in France by Jean Jacques Servan Schreiber and a technical team of Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Seymour Pappert and Terry Winograd. Raj Reddy served as the Chief Scientist for the center and was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by President Mitterrand in 1984. More recently he has been active in establishment of a universal digital library to provide anytime anywhere access to creative works of human race, a university for the gifted rural poor in India, and providing access to healthcare information to illiterate people using ICT.

Reddy's foreword for the widely used book "Spoken Language Processing" by Xuedong Huang, Alex Acero, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon highlighted his close ties with Microsoft's speech brains. Prof. Reddy received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award in 2008, "for leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence."^[2]

References

^ "State Assembly debates digitised". The Hindu. Chennai, India. July 22, 2006.
^ Klie, Leonard (21 March 2008). "Speech Pioneer to Be Honored by IEEE". Speech Technology Magazine. Retrieved 14 December 2009.

External links

Raj Reddy's webpage at CMU

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[1] "State Assembly debates digitised". The Hindu. Chennai, India. July 22, 2006.

[2] Klie, Leonard (21 March 2008). "Speech Pioneer to Be Honored by IEEE". Speech Technology Magazine. Retrieved 14 December 2009.

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-'''Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy''' (born June 13’ 1937) is a prominent world-renowned researcher in [[Artificial Intelligence]], [[Robotics]], and [[Human-Computer Interaction]]. He is one of the early pioneers and an outstanding researcher as well as a visionary in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and served on the faculty of [[Stanford University|Stanford]] and [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon University]] for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of The [[Robotics Institute]] and the Dean of the School of Computer Science at [[CMU]]. Dr. Reddy was instrumental in creating [[Language Technologies Institute]], [[Human-computer interaction|Human-Computer Interaction]] Institute, Center for Automated Learning and Discovery(renamed as [[Machine Learning Department|Machine Learning Department]]), and [[Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research International|Institute for Software Research]] at CMU. Dr. Raj Reddy is also the only Indian to win the Turing Award. He is the first Asian to receive, the [[ACM Turing Award]], in 1994, the highest award in [[Computer Science]], for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.
+'''Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy''' (born June 13, 1937) a Turing Award winner, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and served on the faculty of [[Stanford University|Stanford]] and [[Carnegie Mellon University]] (CMU)<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/07/22/stories/2006072210660400.htm | location=Chennai, India | work=The Hindu | title=State Assembly debates digitised | date=July 22, 2006}}</ref> for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the [[Robotics Institute]] at CMU. 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 is also the Chairman of [[International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad]]. He is also the only Indian to win the Turing Award.
 ==Early life==
+{{Unreferenced section|date=June 2011}}
-Dr. Reddy born in Katur, [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]] received a Bachelor of Engineering (Under Graduation) degree at the [[University of Madras]](now [[College of Engineering, Guindy|Guindy College of Engineering]], [[Chennai]] – part of [[Anna University|Anna University]]) in India in 1958, a Master of Techology (Master's) degree in Civil Engineering at the [[University of New South Wales|University of New South Wales]], [[Australia]] in 1960, and a [[PhD]] in Computer Science from [[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)|John McCarthy]].
+Raj Reddy was born in [[Katur]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[India]]. He received a BE degree from the [[College of Engineering, Guindy]] (now part of [[Anna University]]), [[India]] in 1958 and a MTech degree in Civil Engineering from the [[University of New South Wales]], [[Australia]], in 1960. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from [[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)|John McCarthy]].
 ==Career==
-Dr. Raj Reddy is the [[Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned|Mozah Bint Nasser]] University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]] at [[Carnegie-Mellon University]]. He was formerly the Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Reddy worked as an Applied Science Representative for [[IBM]] Corp., in [[Australia]] from 1960 to 1963. He began his academic career as an Assistant Professor at [[Stanford University|Stanford University]] from 1966 to 1969. He has been a member of the [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon]] faculty as an Associate Professor since 1969. He became a Full Professor in 1973 and a University Professor in 1984. He served as the founding Director of the [[Robotics Institute]] from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]] from 1991 to 1999 in [[Carnegie Mellon University|Carnegie Mellon University]].
+Reddy is the [[Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned|Mozah Bint Nasser]] University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]].  From 1960-63, Reddy worked as an Applied Science Representative for IBM Corp., in Australia. He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at [[Stanford University|Stanford]] from 1966-69. He joined the [[Carnegie Mellon University]] faculty as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in 1969. He became a Full Professor in 1973, and a University Professor in 1984.
-At Carnegie Mellon, under Dr. Reddy’s initiation several institutes were found which include the [[Robotics Institute]], the E-Commerce Technologies Institute, [[Human-computer interaction|Human Computer Interaction]] Institute, [[Language technologies|Language Technologies]] Institute, and the [[Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research International|Institute for Software Research]] in July 2005. Throughout his academic career, Dr. 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]] (President, Google China), and [[Harry Shum]] (Managing Director, Microsoft Research Asia). He is the Chairman of Board of Governing council of [[International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad|IIIT-Hyderabad]], and the Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council of [[Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies|Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies]].
+He served as the founding Director of the [[Robotics Institute]] from 1979 to 1991 and as the Dean of [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]] from 1991 to 1999. As a Dean of [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|SCS]], he was instrumental in creating [[Language technology|Language Technologies Institute]], [[Human-computer interaction|Human Computer Interaction Institute]], Center for Automated Learning and Discovery (since renamed as [[Machine Learning Department|Department of Machine Learning]]), and [[Carnegie Mellon Institute for Software Research International|Institute for Software Research]]. He is the Chairman of Governing Council of [[International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad|IIIT Hyderabad]] and he is the Chancellor and the Chairman of Governing Council of [[Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies]], [[India]].
+===Research===
-He is the main person who was instrumental in helping to create [[Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies|Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies]] in [[India]] to cater the educational needs of the gifted rural youth. The University branch campuses namely Basara of Adilabad district, Nuzivedu of Krishna district, and in Rajiv Knowledge Valley of Kadapa district were established under RGU. These Institutes specialize in emerging disciplines, teaching include tutored videos where students use individual Personal Computers in fully residential environments. The basic concept of RGUKT, a green field university, is to select the top 1% rural Andhra Pradesh students district wise, based on tenth standard grade.
+Reddy’s early research was conducted at the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|AI labs]] at [[Stanford]], first as a graduate student and later as an Assistant Professor, and at CMU since 1969. His AI research concentrated on perceptual and motor aspect of intelligence such as speech, language, vision and robotics. In speech, he and his colleagues developed large vocabulary connected speech recognition system named Hearsay and Harpy as part of the DARPA speech understanding research program. Since then the CMU team has been responsible for many advances in speech research and the graduates from CMU went on to become leaders in the field.
+His other major research interest has been in exploring the role of “Technology in Service of Society”.  An early attempt in this area was the establishment, in 1981, of “Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaines” in France by Jean Jacques Servan Schreiber and a technical team of [[Nicholas Negroponte]], Alan Kay, Seymour Pappert and Terry Winograd.  Raj Reddy served as the Chief Scientist for the center and was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by President Mitterrand in 1984.  More recently he has been active in establishment of a [[Million Book Project|universal digital library]] to provide anytime anywhere access to creative works of human race, a [[Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies|university]] for the gifted rural poor in India, and providing access to healthcare information to illiterate people using ICT.
-Dr. Reddy started a pilot education project called [http://www.gurukulam.in/ 21 Century Gurukulam] for the rural communities who have completed their graduation in various districts of [[Andhra Pradesh]]. Dr. Reddy also initiated the establishment of the Jawahar Knowledge Center at [[Venkateshwara University|Sri Venkateshwara University College of Engineering]], Andhra Pradesh.
-Dr. Reddy served as co-chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1999 – 2001, under [[Bill Clinton]] and led the formation of [[AAAI]] in the spring of 1980. He also serves on the Microsoft Technical Advisory Board, and the Board of Directors at [[3Com]]. Furthermore, Dr. Reddy was the first director of Carnegie Mellon University West and one of the founding members on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. He serves on the Board of Governors of Peres Institute for Peace in Israel. He is the governing body member of Emergency Management and Research Institute, an Indian service organization in Hyderabad, which runs and operates 108 free ambulances all over [[Andhra Pradesh]]. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence from 1987 to 1989. His professional honors include: Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the [[Acoustical Society of America]], Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, [[IEEE]] and [[AAAI]].
-==Research==
-Dr. Raj Reddy’s early research was conducted at the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory|AI labs]] at [[Stanford]], first as a graduate student. His AI research concentrated on perceptual and motor aspect of intelligence such as speech, language, vision and robotics. Dr. Raj Reddy at [[Charles Babbage Institute]], University of Minnesota, Minneapolis discussed his work in [[Artificial Intelligence]] (AI), especially speech recognition, from his graduate work at Stanford University through his research as a principle investigator on [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]] (DARPA) grants at Carnegie-Mellon University. Other topics include: the interaction of researchers at the [[Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory]], DARPA funding of AI research from 1960s to 1980s. In speech, Dr. Reddy along with his colleagues developed large vocabulary connected speech recognition system named Hearsay and Harpy as part of the DARPA speech understanding research program. Since then the CMU team has been responsible for many advances in speech research and the graduates from CMU went on to become leaders in the field.
-Dr. Reddy’s other major research interest has been in exploring the role of “Technology in Service of Society”. He served as the Chief Scientist for the “Center Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine”. In 1981, an early attempt in this area was the establishment of “Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressource Humaine” in France by [[Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber|Jean Jacques Servan Schreiber]] and a technical team of [[Nicholas Negroponte]], Alan Kay, Seymour Pappert and Terry Winograd.
-Dr. Raj Reddy's research interests include: [[Million Book Project|Universal Digital Library]] which helps anytime anywhere access to monuments, books, newspaper archives; Learning Science and Technologies; a Multifunction Information Appliance that can be used by the uneducated; Fiber To The Village Project; Mobile Autonomous Robots; Masters of Science in Information Technology(MSIT) that involves the methodology of ‘Learning By Doing’; [[Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies]], a university gifted for the rural poor in India; and providing access to healthcare information with the role of ICT in developing economies.
-Dr. Reddy's foreword for the widely used book "Spoken Language Processing" by [[Xuedong Huang]], Alex Acero, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon highlighted his close ties with Microsoft's speech brains.
-Dr. Reddy worked on the PCtvt (PC, TV, PVR, Video Phone) for use by illiterate people in rural environments as an information appliance and Language Tutor: A rapid language learning solution that is integrated with [[CMU Sphinx|Speech engine Sphinx]].
-==Awards and Honors==
-[[Image: Rajreddy.jpg|thumb|Dr. Raj Reddy(right) receiving Vannevar Bush Award from [[Kenneth M. Ford]](left)]]
-In 1984, Dr. Reddy was awarded the [[Legion of Honor]] by President [[François Mitterrand]] of [[France]] for his work on the use of Information Technologies for Human Resource Development in developing countries of the world. Dr. Reddy received the IBM Research Ralph Gomory Visiting Scholar Award in 1991.
-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".
-In 2001, Dr. Reddy was awarded the [[Padma Bhushan]], an award that recognizes distinguished service of a high order to the nation, by the [[President of India]].
-In 2004, Dr. Reddy received Okawa Prize for his contributions to Artificial Intelligent and Robotics Technologies and the Honda Prize in 2005 for his "Contribution to eco-technology", the concept that technology should not pursue efficiency and profits alone but should be geared toward harmony with the environment surrounding human activities.
-Dr. Reddy received the [[IJCAI]] Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award in 2005 for "His outstanding service to the AI community as President of American Association for Artificial Intelligence from 1987 to 89, Conference Chair of IJCAI-79, and his leadership and promotion of AI internationally".
-In 2006, Dr. Reddy received the Vannevar Bush Award, the highest Award of National Science Foundation in United States for his lifetime contribution to science and long-standing statesmanship in science and behalf of the nation.
-Prof. Reddy received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Technical Field Award in 2008, for leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence.
-He has been awarded honorary doctorates (Doctor of Science Honoris Causa) from [[Sri Venkateswara University]], Henri-Poincare, [[University of New South Wales]], [[Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad|Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University]], [[University of Massachusetts]], [[University of Warwick]], [[Anna University]], [[Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad|Indian Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad]], [[Andhra University]] and [[IIT Kharagpur]].
+Reddy's foreword for the widely used book "Spoken Language Processing" by [[Xuedong Huang]], Alex Acero, and Hsiao-Wuen Hon highlighted his close ties with Microsoft's speech brains. Prof. Reddy received the [[IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award]] in 2008, "for leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/News/News-Feature/Speech-Pioneer-to-Be-Honored-by-IEEE-41316.aspx|title=Speech Pioneer to Be Honored by IEEE|last=Klie|first=Leonard|date=21 March 2008|work=Speech Technology Magazine|accessdate=14 December 2009}}</ref>
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-* [http://www.emri.in/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=49&Itemid=203/ Governing Board of EMRI]
-* [http://www.gurukulam.in/ 21CG]
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