Time: 2:30 pm-4:30 pm, November 4, 2018

Venue: Qiushi Hall,  Peiyangyuan Campus

Speaker: Professor Raj Reddy 

About the Lecture:  

The lecture will presnt AI Empowered Innovation and Potential Development of New Industries in Tienjin region. One the biggest untapped market of the Four to Five Billion People that do not yet have smart phones. Many of these people are semi-literate, and can only be reached using AI enabled spoken dialog solutions for interaction with the market. We will present two types of Intelligent Assistants, namely, Cognition Amplifiers that will enable us to do many daily tasks faster and with less effort and Guardian Angels that will provide us with superhuman capabilities, and examine how they might lead to opportunities to develop new industries.

About the Speaker: 

Raj Reddy is a University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics, and Moza Bint Nasser Chair at Carnegie Mellon University.  He was an Assistant Professor at Stanford from 1966-69 and Faculty Member at Carnegie Mellon since 1969. He served as the founding Director of the Robotics Institute from 1979 to 1991 and the Dean of School of Computer Science from 1991 to 1999.

He has been active in AI research for over five decades in the areas of AI, Speech Understanding, Image Understanding, Robotics, Multi-sensor Fusion, and Intelligent Agents.

Dr. Reddy's current research interests include: Technology in Service of Society, Voice Computing for the 3B semi-literate populations at the bottom of the pyramid, Digital Democracy, and Learning Science and Technologies.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as co-chair of President Clinton’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1999 to 2001.  Dr. Reddy is the recipient of the Legion of Honor in 1984, the ACM Turing Award in 1994, the Padma Bhushan in 2001, the Honda Prize in 2005 and Vannevar Bush Award in 2006

All students and staff of Tianjin University are welcome.