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Raj Reddy. Nathan Gober CSCE 221-200 4/15/14. Life and Education. Born June 13, 1937 in Andhra Pradesh, India Son of an agricultural landlord B.E. in Civil Engineering from Guindy College of Engineering, 1958 M.Tech from the University of New South Wales, 1960
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Raj Reddy Nathan Gober CSCE 221-200 4/15/14
Life and Education • Born June 13, 1937 in Andhra Pradesh, India • Son of an agricultural landlord • B.E. in Civil Engineering from Guindy College of Engineering, 1958 • M.Tech from the University of New South Wales, 1960 • Employed by IBM in Australia, 1960-1963 • Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1966 • Speech Recognition under John McCarthy • Lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and two daughters
Carnegie Mellon University • Accepted an associate professorship at CMU in 1969 • Founded CMU’s west coast campus in 2001 • DARPA contract on speech understanding – 1970 • Developed HEARSAY (I,II), DRAGON, HARPY
Hearsay-I, Dragon, HARPY • HEARSAY-I • Procedural, embedded, best-first • DRAGON • Markov network, deterministic, speech-independent • HARPY • Hybrid, dynamic, spectral templates
HEARSAY-II • Blackboard model • Collaborative programs
Awards and Organizations • Legion of Honor (1984) • Turing Award (1994) • For pioneering large-scale artificial intelligence • PadmaBhushan (2001) • Okawa Prize (2004) • Honda Prize (2005) • IJCAI Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award (2005) • Vannevar Bush Award (2006) • IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award (2008) • IEEE Intelligent Systems AI Hall of Fame (2011) • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence • Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee • Peres Center for Peace (Israel) • GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute • Indian Institute of Health Management • International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad