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Prof. Raj Reddy, born in Andhra Pradesh, is a pioneer of artificial intelligence and speech recognition. He was the first person of Asian origin to receive the Turing Award, the highest honour in computer science, and helped found IIIT Hyderabad and the Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies.
Key contributions
- Pioneering work on large-scale AI systems and speech recognition
- A. M. Turing Award (1994)
- Padma Bhushan (2001)