Judea Pearl
Computer Scientist
1936 –
Who is Judea Pearl?
Judea Pearl is an Israeli-born American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks. He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. He is the 2011 winner of the ACM 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".
Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by militants in Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002 for his American and Jewish heritage.
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- Born
- 1936
Tel Aviv - Also known as
- Dr. Judea Pearl
- Spouses
- Children
- Religion
- Judaism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Israel
- Profession
- Education
- Rutgers University
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University
- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
- Stanford University
- Employment
- University of California, Los Angeles
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on July 23, 2013
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