Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American electrical engineer, computer scientist and philosopher best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and developing Bayesian networks, and for a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011 the Association for Computing Machinery awarded him the Turing Award, computer science's highest distinction, 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 Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference and The Book of Why. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardDickson Prize in Science 1 AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society 1 AwardACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award 1 AwardFellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1 AwardHonorary doctorate from University of Toronto 1 AwardIJCAI Award for Research Excellence 1 AwardFellow of the Cognitive Science Society 1 AwardFellow of the American Statistical Association 1 AwardBenjamin Franklin Medal 1 Connections
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Judea Pearl developed Bayesian networks as a formalism for probabilistic reasoning, presented in his 1985 paper and 1988 book Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems.
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born September 4, 1936
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