Aravind Joshi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aravind Joshi

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1929

Place of Birth: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Date of Death: 31-Dec-2017

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, linguist, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United States, India

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Aravind Krishna Joshi (August 5, 1929 – December 31, 2017) was the Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science in the computer science department of the University of Pennsylvania.
Joshi defined the tree-adjoining grammar formalism which is often used in computational linguistics and natural language processing. Joshi studied at Pune University and the Indian Institute of Science, where he was awarded a BE in electrical engineering and a DIISc in communication engineering respectively.
Joshi's graduate work was done in the electrical engineering department at the University of Pennsylvania, and he was awarded his PhD in 1960.
He became a professor at Penn and was the co-founder and co-director of the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science.