Raj Reddy
Has Dabbala Rajagopal " Raj " Reddy ( born June 13, 1937 in Katur, Andhra Pradesh, India) is an Indian- American computer scientist who made significant achievements in the field of robotics provided and 1994 together with Edward Feigenbaum the Turing Award for their work in field of artificial intelligence has been awarded.
Life
Reddy made 1958 an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at Guindy Engineering College, University of Madras in Chennai (now part of Anna University) and in 1960 the Master at the University of New South Wales. He then worked until 1963 as IBM 's representative in Australia, and his PhD in 1966 finally in computer science at Stanford University during the later Turing Award winner John McCarthy.
Reddy was first as an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford University until he joined as an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University in 1969 and 1973 was a full professor.
Services
At his instigation, America's First Robotics Institute at CMU was founded in 1979, which he also directed, until he Dean of the CMU School of Computer Science in 1991, where he remained until 1999. He was also the first director of Carnegie Mellon West, the CMU campus in Silicon Valley, and also helped in the establishment of the campus in Qatar.
Reddy was from 1999 to 2001 Vice - Chairman of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and obtained there a significant increase in federal funding for research in the field of technology. From 1987 to 1989 he was president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence. He also sits on the Microsoft Technical Advisory Board and the Board of Directors of 3Com, is Chairman of the Carnegie Group and member of the International Board of the Israeli Peres Center for Peace.
Research projects Reddy's are located in the areas of robotics, AI, human- computer interaction and speech recognition, up to date, they focus primarily on improving the living conditions of the poor through digital technologies, as among others, the Million Book Digital Library Project ( intended to make the digitized books available online for free ), the Fiber To The Village Project and the PCtvt ( tailored to the needs of developing countries combination of computer, television and telephone ).
He also worked in the education pilot project 21st Century Gurukulam for the rural population of Andhra Pradesh. Reddy proposed the creation of Jawahar Knowledge Center at the Sri Venkateshwara University College of Engineering, where he pays monthly 50 students as part of the earn while you learn program 1,000 rupees.
Reddy was a doctor father of Kai- Fu Lee, president of Google China.
Awards (selection)
- Honorary doctorate from the Sri Venkateswara University, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Anna University, the Indian Institute for Information Technology, Andhra University, the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Université Henri Poincaré, University of New South Wales, the University of Massachusetts and the University of Warwick
- Fellow of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1984: Member of the Legion of Honour ( appointed by François Mitterrand for his work in developing countries)
- 1991: Ralph Gomory Visiting Scholar Award from IBM Research
- 1994: Turing Award ( with Edward Feigenbaum ) for pioneering work in large systems, artificial intelligence
- 2001: Padma Bhushan
- 2004: Okawa Prize
- 2005: Honda Prize for his contributions to the eco-technology (since technology can improve the quality of life, while reducing the impact on their environment)
- 2006: Vannevar Bush Award of the National Science Board