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Judea Pearl

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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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Birth Year
1936 1
Birth Date
1936-09-04 2
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Bayesian Network, Concepts

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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1. Judea Pearl (Wikidata)
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1936
    1936
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Dickson Prize in Science
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Dickson Prize in Science.
  • Wikidata P166: Foreign Member of the Royal Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Foreign Member of the Royal Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Lakatos Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Lakatos Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Harvey Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Harvey Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Award.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Kampé de Fériet Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Kampé de Fériet Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Rumelhart Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Rumelhart Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Wikidata P166: Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Honorary doctorate from University of Toronto.
  • Wikidata P166: IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IJCAI Award for Research Excellence.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Statistical Association
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
  • Wikidata P166: Benjamin Franklin Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Benjamin Franklin Medal.
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2. Wikipedia: Judea Pearl
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born September 4, 1936
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