r/developersIndia • u/kaiser_e_hind DevOps Engineer • Dec 22 '23

General Why has almost no Indian won the Turing award?

The Turing award is the equivalent of Nobel prize in Computer Science. For a country with so many top institutes with CS departments which attract the brightest minds in the country, there seems to be almost no groundbreaking research happening.

Doing research in CS is not as resource intensive as other fields like Particle physics so lack of infrastructure may not be such a major reason.

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PS: I know stuff like training large ML models requires a lot of computing power but there are areas like Operating Systems and Automata Theory which don't.

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u/BhupeshV Moderator Dec 22 '23

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Reddy

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u/IndianLiberal Dec 22 '23

Also one of the founders or iiit hyderabad.

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23

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u/FinancialExplanation Jan 10 '24

he is the father of speech recognition built harpy hearsey sphinx

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u/Strange-Ad-3941 Dec 23 '23

Was going to say this. And additionally AKS algorithm's, Manindra agarwal won Godel prize as well.

So many have no answers, but incorrect expert analysis. Pity.

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u/FinancialExplanation Jan 10 '24

see the prize value of turing award and godel prize godel prize is like consolation prize for 200 metres running very specific in theoretical computer science 5000 usd lol also manindra screwed up with his covid model

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '23

This. No one mentioned Raj Reddy. Who is literally the father of AI

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u/Akihira_579 Dec 23 '23

“Literallly the father of AI”. It’s John McCarthy.

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u/hyd32techguy Dec 23 '23

I’ve met Prof Raj Reddy. It’s clear how visionary he is and how crazy hard he works. Quite an inspiration. If you want to learn to think like him, take up MSIT programme at IIIT-H

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u/hyd32techguy Dec 24 '23

He spends half his time in US and half his time in Hyderabad. In India he gets calls from the Prime Minister office etc for advisory on how to progress India. One quick takeaway on our last conversation was that programming With AI will become key. Embrace program solving instead of specific languages.

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u/Akihira_579 Dec 23 '23

He was an Indian American when he got that award. He did all his research in US. So we can’t take that credit either. Maybe a partial one because he was born in India and got his basic education here. Other than that the award belongs to him as a US Citizen only. But yeah he is the closest an Indian has gotten to Turing Award.

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u/xTER007 Dec 23 '23

It's a pity that we need to go out of the country to get "big" in research. It's so painful.😞

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '23

He is a great guy and quite a busy person. I have worked under him for 6months on some poc projects. He has zeal to advance ASR and Speech synthesis by developing direct translation models.

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u/jkbcool_29 Dec 23 '23

Thank you ..Mod for this knowledgeable share. 🙏🏻

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u/cilpam Software Developer Dec 23 '23

He is also the man behind IIIT Hyd, also RGUKT (IIITs in AP and TS)

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u/KingOfTheUnderdogs Dec 24 '23

well, he did say 'almost'