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Princeton University. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur.
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Ravi Sethi
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He is best known as one of three authors of the classic computer science textbook Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, also known as the Dragon Book. Sethi was born in 1947 in Murdana, Punjab. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) and went on to obtain a Doctor of Philosophy at Princeton University.
He worked as an assistant professor at Penn State University, before joining Bell Labs in 1976.
Also in 1996 he was named research vice president in charge of computing and mathematical sciences and, additionally, in 1997, chief technical officer for Lucent’s Communications Software Group.
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He also serves as a member of the National Science Foundation"s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee.
