Raj Reddy
Wean Hall 5325, School of
Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891
412-268-2597 412-268-6901(F) rr@cmu.edu
For short version please see www.rr.cs.cmu.edu
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
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
Dr. Reddy's research
interests include the study of human-computer interaction and artificial
intelligence. His current research interests include: Universal Digital
Libraries (Anytime Anywhere Access to Monuments, Books, and Newspaper
Archives-1000 newspapers for 1000 years), Role of ICT in developing economies
in the areas of Education, Health, and Information Access.
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 serves on the Board
of Governors of Peres Institute for Peace in
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,
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 platfo
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
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
Back to The Future: Early Role
of EAF in Divining the Future of AI, Talk presented at Edward A. Feigenbaum
70th Festschrift, March 26, 2006
Robotics and
Intelligent Systems in Support of Society, IEEE Transactions Intelligent
Systems, 21, 3, 24-31,
2006
Spoken Language Systems: The Unfinished Agenda,
ICSLP Plenary Speech at the Interspeech 2006,
Creating Rural Wealth using ICT and Wireless, Invited Talk
at the Indian Economic Association Annual Conference,
Applications
of Intelligent Systems and Robotics in Service of Society, Keynote Speech
at IJCAI 2007, Hyderabad, India, Jan 10, 2007
“Luck
favors the Prepared Mind”: Reflections on a Scientific Career, Talk
at the Journey series at CMU, October 8, 2007
Technology in Service of Society,
Talk at Microsoft Research Asia 10th Anniversary symposium, Beijing,
November 4, 2008
Educating a Child Machine: The Unfinished Agenda of
Human-Level AI, Microsoft Research Symposium, March 9, 2012
Creating a Child Machine:
Reflections on Turing’s Proposal, Talk at ACM Turing Centenary
Celebration, San Francisco. June 15-16, 2012
Homo Connecticus:
Implications for Life in a Connected Planet, Talk Presented at the Israel
Presidential Conference, June 20, 2012
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