Raj Reddy
Wean Hall 5325, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3891
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Dr. Raj Reddy is a University
Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and Moza Bint Nasser Chair 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
He has been
active in AI research for over five decades in the areas of AI, Speech
Understanding, Image Understanding, Robotics, Multi-sensor Fusion, and
Intelligent Agents.
Dr. Reddy's
current research interests include: Technology in Service of Society, Speech to
Speech Translation among Indian Languages, Voice Computing for the 3B
semi-literate populations at the bottom of the pyramid, Digital Democracy,
Learning Science and Technologies, and KG to PG College in Every Village.
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, Hong Kong University of Science
and Technology, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, and Carnegie
Mellon University. He was a
founding member of the International Board of Governors of Peres Center for
Peace in Israel.
Selected contributions
available on the Web
Pre 2000 Papers and Talks
SPEECH-UNDERSTANDING SYSTEMS: Final Report of a Study Group,
Allen Newell et al, CMU CSD report, May 1971
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
Task-Oriented Architectures, Bisiani, Mauersberg, and Reddy,
Proceedings of IEEE, 71, 7, 885-898, July 1983
“Prof honored”,
Mitterrand Visit and Legion of Honor Ceremony. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, OCR
corrected copy, original
PPG, March 28 1984
“Worlds apart”.
Mitterrand Legion of Honor Ceremony, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, OCR
corrected copy, original
PPG, March 29 1984
“Fitting Honor for
Reddy”, Mitterrand Visit and Legion of Honor Ceremony. Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette Editorial, OCR
corrected copy, original
PPG, March 29 1984
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
2000-2009 Talks
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,
Speech Recognition – A 50
Year Retrospective, Invited Paper presented at Acoustical Society of
America Conf 2004 session in Honor of Contributions of James Flanagan, Nov 15,
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 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,
Pittsburgh, Pa. Sep 22, 2006
Creating Rural Wealth using ICT
and Wireless, Invited Talk at the Indian Economic Association Annual
Conference, Kurukshetra University, India, Dec 28, 2006
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
Alternative Visions for
Computer Science, China Computer Science Vision 2020 Talk, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, October 13, 2009
2010-2015 Talks
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
Who Invented the Computer?
Babbage, Atanasoff, Zuse, Turing or von Neumann? Talk given at Heidelberg
Laureates Forum on Origins of Computing, Sep 23, 2013
Role of Technology Innovation in
Creating a Truly Humane Society, Talk presented at Honda Foundation Laureates
Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, Nov 14, 2014
Computational Limits to Human
Thinking, Talk presented at MSR India 10th Anniversary Symposium,
Bangalore, India, Jan 23, 2015
2016-2017 Talks
KG to PG Online
Micro-University in Every Village, Talk presented to HRD Ministry of AP.
July 5, 2016
Anytime, Anywhere Anyone
(AAA) Internet Voting in India, Talk presented at Election Commission of
India, August 2, 2016
Disruptive Future of Education,
Talk presented at VC conference, India, August 11, 2016
The Role of Smart Villages
in the 21st Century, Keynote speech, IKCEST symposium, Beijing, Sep 4 2016
RI, NREC, and the Future of
Robotics, Invited talk at NREC 25 Anniversary symposium, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sep 8, 2016
Voice Computing and Reaching the
3B People at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Talk presented at Heidelberg
Laureate Forum, Sep 20, 2016.
Too Much Information and Too
Little Time, Talk presented at Heidelberg Laureate Forum, Sep 22,
2016. Video
IoT Intensive Smart Cities
Enable Innovative Engineering Industries, Keynote Speech at International
Forum on Innovation and Emerging Industries Development (IEID), Shanghai,
China, Nov 1, 2016
Internet Enabled AI and Big Data
Applications in Service of Society, Talk at 3rd World Internet Conference,
Wuzhen China, Nov 17 2016
Preserving Our Past and Present
for the Future Generations, Keynote at International Conference on Digital
Resources Sharing and Applications, Hangzhou, China, June 15, 2017
Challenges in Ethics of AI,
Panel at ACM 50 Years of Turing Awards Conference, June 23, 2017
Creating a Humane Society
through Computational Social Science, Keynote Speech at Web Intelligence WI
17 Conference Leipzig Germany, Aug 25, 2017
COGs: Towards Universal Enduring
Personal Cognition Amplifiers, Keynote Speech at IBM Cognitive Colloquium,
Yorktown Heights, Sep 18, 2017
Guardian Angels and
Cognition Amplifiers: AI 2.0 Technologies in Support of Humankind, Keynote
Speech at UNESCO IKCEST symposium on Knowledge Service and AI, Hangzhou, China,
Sep 28, 2017
Universal
Copyright and UNESCO Distributed Digital Archive, Talk at IKCEST Advisory Board
Meeting, Sep 29, 2018
KaaS: Knowledge as a
Service, Plenary Speech at Innovation and Emerging Industry Development
conference, Shanghai, Nov 7-8, 2017
Big Data Driven
Innovation and Next Generation AI, Speech at Innovation and Emerging
Industry Development conference, Shanghai, Nov 7-8, 2017
2018 -2019 Talks
AI 2.0 in Service of
Humankind: Special Topic
Celebrating 50th Anniversary of CMU, Talk to CMU Alumni Association,
Singapore, Jan 23
Creating a Humane
Society Using AI: Role of Cognition Amplifiers and Guardian Angels, Talk at
ACM China Conference, Shanghai, May 19, 2018
Back to The Future: Divining
the Future of AI, Talk at MSRA, Beijing, May 31, 2018
Reaching the Three Billion People
at The Bottom of the Pyramid, Talk at Harbin Institute of Technology,
Harbin, June 6, 2018
Impact
of AI on Services Industry, Keynote Speech at the 2018 IEEE World Congress
on Services, San Francisco, July 3, 2018
AI:
Future Opportunities, Plenary Speech at World AI Conference,
Shanghai, September 17, 2018
AI: Background,
History and Future Opportunities, Invited Speech at IKCEST,
Hangzhou, China, Oct 26, 2018
AI:
Background and Future Opportunities, Talk at MSRA 20th Anniversary
Meeting, Beijing, Nov 6, 2018
AI Enabled
Universal Healthcare, Presented at Global Digital Health Summit, New
Delhi, Feb 27, 2019
Back to the
Future: Past, Present and Future of AI, Keynote Speech MSRA 21st
Century Computing, Shanghai China, Aug 30, 2019
Knowledge As A
Service (KaaS): Inventing the Future using AI, Keynote Talk at the
IKCEST Conference 2019, Xian, China, Sep 11, 2019
Grand Challenges
of AI: The Unfinished Agenda, Presented at the Heidelberg Laureate
Forum, Sep 27, 2019
2020 Talks
Using AI to
Eliminate Covid Lockdowns, Presented at MSRA (June 16) and World AI
Conference I(short version), Tianjin, China, June 22, 2020
An AI Solution to
Covid-19 Lockdown Problem: Technology for Eliminating Lockdowns in the
Post-Pandemic Era, Heidelberg Laureates Forum, Sep 23, 2020
AI and Ethics -
Creating a Humane Society: Human Rights and Basic Necessities, INK
Conference on Monk & Machine - Ethics and Wisdom in the Age of Exponential
Technologies, Sep 25, 2020
AI in Service of
Society of India, PMs Plenary Session, RAISE Conference, Delhi, India, Oct
5, 2020
Empowering the
People at the Bottom of the Pyramid Using AI: Bridging The Literacy Divide and
Language Divide with Voice Enabled AI, Keynote, Panel on Bridging
Communications and Linguistic Barriers, RAISE Conference, Delhi, India, Oct 6,
2020
AI 2.0 in
Service of Humankind: Tele-Robotics for Disaster Rescue, Telerobotics &
5G, Building Platform for Digital Nomads, RAISE Conference, Delhi, India, Oct
7, 2020
Computational
Limits to Human Thinking in a Society with Too Much Information And Too Little
Time, 2020 Global AI Conference, Hangzhou, China, Oct 16, 2020
No More Lockdowns? An
Agenda to Eliminate Lockdowns the Post-Pandemic Era, World Laureates Forum,
Shanghai, Oct 29, 2020
AI
Enabled Universal Healthcare - Population Scale Healthcare Problems, ALL.AI
Summit, Hyderabad, Oct 12, 2020
AI:
Background, History and Future Opportunities, MIT MBA Seminar, Oct 30, 2020
Future of Education - NEP 2020 and Post-Covid Consequences, Inaugural Lecture at Punjab Engineering College Centenary Lecture Series, Nov 11, 2020
The Inaugural Raj Reddy Artificial Intelligence Lecture, Carnegie Mellon, Nov 18, 2020.
2021 Talks
AI in Service of
PURA: Enabling Dr Kalam’s Vision of Providing Urban Amenities in Rural
Areas, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Foundation Online Conference on “AI for
India - A Vision for a Developed Nation”, January 21, 2021
Some
Implications of Cognitive Science for K-12 Education, Workshop on Cognitive
and Neuro-Sciences and Education, IIIT-H, Feb 11, 2021
Jaime Carbonell, JGC
Memorial Service Talk, Carnegie Mellon, March 3, 2021
AI: Background, History and
Future Opportunities, Talk at IIT Tirupathi, April 7, 2021
ISR Graduation Talk,
Carnegie Mellon, May 22, 2021
2021 Computer
History Museum Fellow Awards Honoring Raj Reddy, Computer History Museum, Mountain
View, Ca. June 23, 2021
Future
Role of Statistics in AI,Talk at Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata, June 29, 2021
Emerging Technologies and Implications
for the Future of Education: Dr. YSR’s Legacy to
AP: Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, YSR Memorial Lecture
at RGUKT, Nuzvidu, AP, July 8, 2021
The Million
Book Project: 20 Year Retrospective, MBP20 Anniversary Celebration,
Carnegie Mellon, Aug 23-26. Youtube
AI in
Service of Society of India, Global AI Summit on Responsible AI for Social
Empowerment (RAISE 2020), Delhi, India, Oct 5-7
Future of Education:
Post-Covid Scenarios for Transforming Education, Intel India Conclave on
Technology and Higher Education, Oct 21, 2021
Personal Early History of AI,
Talk given at CMU Course historical advances in machine learning (and AI)
taught by Aditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon, Oct 27
AI
in Service of Society, World Laureates Association Digital Innovation Talk,
Shanghai, Oct 30, 2021
AI to Empower
People at the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid, World Laureates Association Mobius
Forum 3 min talk, Shanghai, Oct 31, 2021
Future
of AI, Presentation at PRAIRE institute, Paris, Nov 9, 2021
Universal
Access to Knowledge, Indic Wiki Symposium, IIIT-H, Hyderabad, Nov 17, 2021
Fortune at the
Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Enabled by AI and Spoken Language Communication, Talk
at Mohammed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Nov 20, 2021
Universal Access to Knowledge: The
Million Book Project and CADAL, Talk at 20th Anniversary of CADAL Million
Book Project, Hangzhou, China. Nov
29, 2021
