Dr. Raj Reddy is the Moza Bint Nasser University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1960-63, Dr. 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 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.
Dr. Reddy received a BE degree from the Guindy Engineering College of the University of Madras, India in 1958 and a MTech degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1960. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1966.
Dr. Reddy’s research interests include artificial intelligence and the study of human-computer interaction. His current research interests include: Technology in Service of Society, Cognition Amplifiers and Guardian Angels, Digital Democracy, Universal Digital Archive, Voice Computing for the 3B semi-literate populations at the bottom of the pyramid, and KG to PG Micro-Universities.
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, Member of the National Academy of Engineering and Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Indian National Science Academy, and India National Academy of Engineering. He was president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence from 1987 to 89. In 2011, he was inducted into inaugural IEEE Intelligent Systems’ AI’s Hall of Fame.
Dr. Reddy was awarded the Legion of Honor by President Mitterand of France in 1984 and Padma Bhushan by President of India in 2001. He was awarded the ACM Turing Award in 1994, the Okawa Prize in 2004, the Honda Prize in 2005, and the Vannevar Bush Award in 2006. He served as co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1999 to 2001.
He has been awarded honorary doctorates (Doctor Honoris Causa) from SV University, Universite Henri-Poincare, University of New South Wales, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, University of Massachusetts, University of Warwick, Anna University, Indian Institute for Information Technology (Allahabad), Andhra University, IIT Kharagpur and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He was a founding member of the International Board of Governors of Peres Center for Peace in Israel.
Selected contributions available on the Web
Speech Recognition by Machine: A Review, Proceedings of the IEEE, 64, 501-531, April 1976
Machine Intelligence and Robotics: Report of the NASA Study Group – Executive Summary, Final Report Carl Sagan (chair), Raj Reddy (vice chair) and others, NASA JPL, September 1979
Foundations and Grand Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Presidential Address, 1988.
To Dream the Possible Dream, Turing Award Lecture presented at ACM CS Conference, March 1, 1995
All Authored Works On-Line : A Global Infrastructure for Universal Access to Information. April 1997, new version 4MB Nov 2003
To Err is Human : Computational Limits to Human Thinking – Implications for the Design of User Interfaces. October 1996; new version June 2004
Towards Teleportation, Time Travel and Immortality, ACM 50th Anniversary Conference, March 1997
A Gigabit National Data Grid/Fiber-to-the-Home Initiative for Computer Mediated Communications. June 1997
Towards a Dependable Self Healing Network, white paper for Congressional Testimony, March 2000
Implications of Infinite Memory and Bandwidth, Talk presented at Newell-Simon Hall Dedication Symposium, October 19, 2000
Computing – The Next 10 years, Talk presented at Georgia Tech 10th Anniversary Convocation, April 6, 2001
Sustainable ICT for Emerging Economies Talk presented at NSF-UN-World Bank conference on Technologies for Sustainable Development, Bangalore, India, Jan 2004
PCtvt: a multifunction information appliance for illiterate people Talk presented at ICT4B retreat at UC Berkeley, August 26, 2004 (6MB); at Stanford May 11, 2005
A Multifunction Information Appliance for Emerging Economies: Mythology and Reality of the Digital Divide Problem Talk presented at MIT workshop on future platforms Aug 1, 2005
The Role of Information Technology at the Bottom of the Pyramid, talk at CMU Oct 5th and 6th, 2005
Million Book Digital Library Project: Research Issues in Data Mining and Text Mining, with Jaime Carbonell, Talk presented at International Conference on Data Mining, Nov 28, 2005 and MSR India TechVista Symposium, Jan 12, 2006
The Disruptive Future of Telecom, with Rahul Tongia, talk presented at World Telecom Development Conference, WTDC 06, March 7, 2006
Reflections on Early AI and CS at Stanford: 1963 – 1969 and Beyond, Talk presented at Stanford CS40th Anniversary Symposium, March 22, 2006
The New Bill of Rights of Information Society, with Jaime Carbonell, Talk presented at Google, March 23, 2006
Back to The Future: Early Role of EAF in Divining the Future of AI, Talk presen