Ravi Sethi (born 1947) is an Indian

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retired from executive roles at

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and Avaya Labs. He also serves as a member of the

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's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Advisory Committee. He is best known as one of three authors of the classic

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textbook '' Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools'', also known as the ''Dragon Book''. Sethi was born in 1947 in Murdana, Punjab. He attended the

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(IITK) and went on to obtain a

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. He worked as an assistant professor at

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, before joining

in 1976. While working for

he was awarded the "Distinguished Technical Staff award", and in 1996 he was named a

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.ACM Fellows Award: Ravi Sethi
retrieved 2011-04-14. Also in 1996 he was named research vice president in charge of computing and mathematical sciences and, additionally, in 1997, chief technical officer for

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’s Communications Software Group. In 2014, Sethi joined the department of computer science at the

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References

External links

Home page (University of Arizona)Home page (Bell Labs)Autobiographical note at Avaya website

on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sethi, Ravi 1947 births Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Indian computer scientists Living people Avaya employees Scientists at Bell Labs IIT Kanpur alumni Princeton University alumni People from Punjab, India