Dabbala Reddy

Name: Dabbala (Rej) Rajagopal Reddy

Born: June 13, 1937, in Katur, Andhra Pradesh, India

Computer-related contributions

• Indian American computer scientist.
• One of the early pioneers in computer science and artificial intelligence.
• With his colleagues demonstrated of a voice controlled robot, large vocabulary connected speech recognition, speaker-independent speech recognition, and unrestricted vocabulary dictation.

Honors and awards

• First person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award for his work in the field of artificial intelligence (1994).
• IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award, "for leadership and pioneering contributions to speech recognition, natural language understanding, and machine intelligence." (2008).