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Article: Raj Reddy: Shaping the next generation of robots. (director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University)
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- June 1, 1990
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Raj Reddy, professor of computer science and founding director of the Robotics institute at Carnegie Mellon University, is a soft-spoken man who succeeds in imparting a quality of inevitability to the most futuristic descriptions of life and work in the 21st century. An expert in Al, robotics, and man/machine communication, his confidence is no doubt the byproduct of the progress he has witnessed, and helped to bring about, during his more than 20 years of teaching and research in the field.
Before coming to CMU in 1969, Reddy taught at Stanford University and was an applied science representative for IBM in Australia. In 1984 he was awarded the French Legion of ...