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Raj Reddy
Born: 1937
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: Indian
Occupation: computer scientist
Source: Notable Twentieth-Century Scientists. Gale Research, 1995.
Table of Contents
Biographical Essay
Further Readings
BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
Raj Reddy is one of the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial i
ntelligence . The director from 1979 to 1992 of the Robotics Institute at Ca
rnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Reddy was responsible
for the operation of thirteen laboratories and three program centers, and ov
ersaw the research performed at the institute on numerous topics related to
computer-integrated manufacturing and robotics design. He is currently the d
ean of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dabblal Rajagopal Reddy was born on June 13, 1937, in Katoor, India, near Ma
dras. His father, Srdenivasulu Reddy, was an agricultural landlord and his m
other, Pitchamma, was a homemaker. His interest in civil engineering led him
to study at the University of Madras College of Engineering, where he recei
ved his bachelor's degree in 1958. Soon after finishing his undergraduate wo
rk in India, Reddy moved to Australia, calling it home for a number of years
. While in Australia, Reddy worked as an applied science representative for
the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) in Sydney. His primary
job used computers for structural analysis. Although his formal education w
as in civil engineering, his first employment and early practical experience
were with computers, which prepared him for future work in the computer fie
ld. Reddy studied for and received a master's degree in computer science fro
m the University of New South Wales in 1961. During his post-baccalaureate e
ducation his interest and course of study changed from the civil to the comp
uter engineering disciplines.
Reddy moved to the United States in 1966 and received his doctorate from Sta
nford in the same year. He became a naturalized citizen and joined the facul
ty of Stanford University as an assistant professor of computer science. His
time at Stanford only lasted three years; in 1969 he moved to Pittsburgh an
d joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University as a professor. It was he
re that Reddy began his study of the rapidly expanding fields of robotics an
d artificial intelligence. He was named director of the Robotics Institute i
n 1979.
Reddy has focused on two areas within the field of robotics: automatons capa
ble of performing manufacturing and assembly-line tasks, and fully functiona
l robots that can perform, understand, and use more complex functions like s
peech, hearing, and sight. Although the later part of the twentieth century
has seen a tremendous growth in the use of robots for assembly-line manufact
uring chores, Reddy feels that researchers are still thirty to one hundred y
ears away from creating machines capable of speech and sight. Aiming to make
this goal a reality, Reddy developed an interdisciplinary program at the In
stitute that trains students in mechanical engineering, computer science, an
d management in order to give them the background they need to design the co
mplex robotics manufacturing systems of the future.
Reddy remains at the forefront of studies in human-computer interaction. His
research projects include building robots capable of speech recognition and
comprehension systems, and the Automated Machine Shop, a full manufacturing
facility using robotics technology. Reddy is also exploring an area he call
s "white-collar robotics," that is, robots programmed to perform such white-
collar tasks as production scheduling and other management functions. Reddy
and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon also investigate the possibilities for
programming robots to make subjective decisions (artificial intelligence),
for building robots that can learn from observation, and for designing robot
s that can work in environments that are hazardous for humans, such as waste
disposal sites and nuclear reactors.
A lecturer in his field and contributor to scholarly journals, Reddy was pre
sented the Legion of Honor by President Mitterrand of France in 1984 for his
service at the World Center for Personal Computation and Human Resources in
Paris. He was awarded the IBM Research Ralph Gomory Visiting Scholar Award
in 1991. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a fellow
of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Acoustical So
ciety of America, and the American Association for Artificial Intelligence,
which he also served as president from 1987 to 1989. Reddy married his wife
Anu in 1966 and has two children, Shyamala and Geetha. He looks forward to t
he day when advances in computer and communication technology will allow eve
ry person to use computers in their daily lives.
FURTHER READINGS
Dworetzky, Tom, Omni, Reddy's Machine Dreams, August, 1990, p. 80.
Goldstein, Gina, Mechanical Engineering, Shaping the Next Generation of Robo
ts, June, 1990, pp. 3842.
Reddy, Raj, Interview with Roger Jaffe, conducted March 25, 1994.
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