Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj Reddy" (born June 13, 1937) is a Indian American computer scientist and winner of Turing Award, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) 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...
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Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj Reddy" (born June 13, 1937) is a Indian American computer scientist and winner of Turing Award, is one of the early pioneers in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) 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 the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994, the highest award in Computer Science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence.
Reddy was born in Katur, Andhra Pradesh, India. Reddy attended the ZP High School at Sri Kalahasti in Chittoor District. After completing an undergraduate education at Loyola College and College of...
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