Raj Reddy
Raj Reddy, a pioneer in Machine intelligence and Robotics was born on June 13, 1937 in Chittoor, India. Reddy Graduated with a BS in Civil Engineering from the Guindy College of Engineering in Madras, India, an MEng in from the University of New South Wales, then received a master's degree and a PhD from Stanford.
For his work, Reddy received several awards including 1994 ACM Tutoring Award, the French Legion of honor, the Honda Prize, the Vannevar Bush Award, and Padma Bhushan awarded by the President of India.
Reddy contributed most to human-computer interaction by developing speech recognition and analysis of natural scenes in AI, worked to achieve universal information access, and founded Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute while a professor there. Reddy also helped establish the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge in India to provide education for underprivileged, ambitious students living in rural areas. Interestingly, Reddy's founding Of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was the first appearance of its kind in any US universities.