Background
Joshi, Aravind Krishna was born on August 5, 1929 in Poona, India.
information scientist computer educator
Joshi, Aravind Krishna was born on August 5, 1929 in Poona, India.
Bachelor in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University Poona, 1951. D.I.I.Sc. in Communications Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, 1952. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, University Pennsylvania, 1958.
Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering, University Pennsylvania, 1960. Doctorate (honorary), University Paris 7, 2002.
Research assistant electrical Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 1952, Tata Institute Fundamental Research, Bombay, 1953. Professor engineer Radio Corporation American, Camden, New Jersey, 1954-1958. Research assistant, department linguistics University Pa,, Philadelphia, 1958—1961, assistant professor, electrical engineering, 1961—1967, assistant professor, linguistics, 1964—1967, associate professor, electrical engineering, member graduate group in linguistics, 1967—1972, professor, computer and information science, member graduate group in linguistics, 1972—1983, chair, department computer and information science, 1972—1985.
Co-director, cognitive science program University Pennsylvania, 1979—2002, co-director, Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, 1990—2002, co-director, National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center for Research in Cognitive Science, 1991—2002, Henry Salvatori professor computers & cognitive science, since 1983, secondary appointment, department lingusitics, since 1983, secondary appointment, department psychology, since 1983, director, artificial intelligence, since 1983. Associate transformations & discourse analysis project National Science Foundation, since 1958. Consultant Philco Research Laboratory, Pennsylvania, 1962-1963, Western Reserve, since 1964.
Member Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1971-1972. Speaker in field.
Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (appointed Distinguished visitor, 1970), Association Computing Machinery. Member Association for Computational Linguistics (president, 1975, editor, Series in Natural Language Processing, 1983-1994, Lifetime Achievement award, 2002), Lingusitic Society of America, American Mathematics Society, National Science Foundation (member advisory panel for Computer Science and Engineering 1976-1979, member advisory panel for the Division of Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems, since 1988), International Joint Committee on Computational Lingusitics (Excellence award, 1997), Cognitive Science Society (David Rumelhart prize, 2003). Permanent member International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
Founding fellow American Association of Artificial Intelligence, 1990 (Best Paper award, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1987).
Married Susan Joshi; children Shyamala and Meera.