Charles Raymond Perrault (also known as Raymond Perrault) is an artificial intelligence researcher and a Distinguished Computer Scientist at SRI International, associated with the University of Toronto.^[1] He was a co-principal investigator of the CALO project, which is the predecessor for several AI technologies including Siri.^[2] Associated with McGill University and the University of Michigan, his 1975 work is titled "Augmented Transition Networks and Their Relation to Tree Manipulation Systems" (https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/188824), involving Joyce Friedman, William Rounds, James F. Allen, and Henry Kautz.

Perrault was a faculty member at the University of Toronto from 1974 to 1983, rising from assistant to full professor.^[6] He began working at SRI International in 1983 and served as the director of the Artificial Intelligence Center from 1987 to 2017. During his time at SRI, he was a co-principal investigator of the CALO project and is also a founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information.^[2]

Perrault served as the co-editor in chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence from 2001 to 2010, the president and a trustee of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence from 1992 to 2001, and the president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1983.^[7] He was named a founding fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1990 and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018, and in July 2011 he received the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.^[8]