Raj Reddy

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Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy is a computer scientist and winner of the Turing Award, is one of the early pioneers of artificial intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon 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.

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Jun 13, 1937
Andhra Pradesh

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PhD, Stanford University
Computer Science
( - 1966)
Master's Degree, University of New South Wales
Technology
( - 1960)
Bachelor of Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy
Civil Engineering
( - 1958)

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Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies
Dean of the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
(1991 - 1999)
Mozah Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University
(1983 - )
Founding Director, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
(1979 - 1991)
Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
(1973 - )
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
(1969 - 1973)
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
(1966 - 1969)
Applied Science Representative, IBM
(1960 - 1963)
Three Rivers Computer Corporation

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