Raj Reddy

Dabbala Rajagopal Raj Reddy (born June 13, 1937) is a IndianAmerican 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 lowincome, 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 is the Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University From 1960, Reddy worked for IBM in Australia He was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University from 1966