Raj Reddy was born in a Telugu family in Katur village of Chittoor district of present-day Andhra Pradesh, India. He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award, in 1994, known as the Nobel Prize of Computer Science, for his work in the field of artificial intelligence. He is the chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He was the founding director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford and Carnegie Mellon for over 50 years.
Dabbala Rajagopal 'Raj' Reddy (born 13 June 1937) is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award.
