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 four authors of the classic

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textbook '' Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools'', also known as the ''Dragon Book''. He also authored ''Software Engineering: Basic Principles and Best Practices'' and ''Programming Languages: Concepts & Constructs'' (1989, 1996) textbooks. Sethi was born in 1947 in Murdana, Punjab. He attended the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK) and went on to obtain a Ph.D. at

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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 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.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 left senior executive positions at Avaya Labs and Bell Labs and returned to academia to join the department of computer science at the

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References

External links

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

on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sethi, Ravi 1947 births 1996 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