Any time you create a technology that has the potential of saving 20 to 30 thousand lives in a year, one has to sit up and take notice. If you look at automotive accidents in the United States, the repair bill is about $55 billion each year.
"Dabbala Rajagopal "Raj" Reddy" is an Indian-American computer scientist and a winner of the Turing Award. He is one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence and has served on the faculty of Stanford University/Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University for over 40 years. He was the founding Director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He was instrumental in helping to create Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies in India, to cater to the educational needs of the low-income, gifted, rural youth. He is also the Chairman of International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. He is the first person of Asian origin to receive the ACM Turing Award, in 1994, the highest award in Computer Science, for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
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