Raj Reddy is a computer scientist and artificial intelligence pioneer whose career at Carnegie Mellon University helped define the field of AI as an engineering discipline. His research on speech recognition, autonomous systems, and large-scale computing contributed foundational methods still in use today. He founded the CMU Robotics Institute and served as dean of the School of Computer Science. In 1994, he received the Turing Award, computing’s highest honor, becoming the first person of South Asian origin to receive the prize. He has also advised governments and international organizations on the role of technology in development.
