Judea Pearl

en.wikipedia.org · 4,196 words · saved by 1 readers

Judea Pearl (Hebrew: יהודה פרל; born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American electrical engineer, computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks (see the article on belief propagation). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on causality). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning". He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public.

Judea Pearl - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American computer scientist (born 1936) (present day Israel)"},"death_date":{"wt":""},"death_place":{"wt":""},"residence":{"wt":""},"citizenship":{"wt":""},"education":{"wt":"[[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology|Israel Institute of Technology]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])<br />[[New Jersey Institute of Technology]] ([[Master of Science|MS]])<br />[[Rutgers University–New Brunswick|Rutgers University, New Brunswick]] ([[Master of Science|MS]])<br />[[New York University]] ([[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])"},"thes

Judea Pearl

related reading