Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl (; born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-American
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 is the father of journalist
Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in
Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002.
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