Judea Pearl
| Judea Pearl | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 4, 1936 Tel Aviv, British Palestine (present day Israel) |
| Nationality | Israeli-American |
| Fields | Computer science, statistics |
| Alma mater |
Technion Rutgers University New York University Tandon School of Engineering |
| Thesis | Vortex Theory of Superconductive Memories (1965) |
| Doctoral advisor | L. Strauss L. Bergstein |
| Known for |
Artificial Intelligence Causality Bayesian Networks |
| Notable awards |
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence(1999) ACM Turing Award (2011) Rumelhart Prize (2011) Harvey Prize (2011) |
| Spouse | Ruth |
| Children | Daniel |
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Website http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html |
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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). 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.
Judea Pearl was born in Tel Aviv, British Mandate for Palestine, in 1936 to Polish-immigrant parents and received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion in 1960. In 1960 he emigrated to the United States and received a master's degree in Physics from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the New York University Tandon School of Engineering (then Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn) in 1965. He worked at RCA Research Laboratories on superconductive parametric and storage devices and at Electronic Memories, Inc., on advanced memory systems. When semiconductors "wiped out" Pearl's work, as he later expressed it, he joined UCLA's School of Engineering in 1970 and started work on probabilistic artificial intelligence. He is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Causal Inference.
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