Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American <a href="/facts/Computer_scientist/DavggjGL">computer scientist</a> and <a href="/facts/Philosopher/Hyvzc54m">philosopher</a>, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to <a href="/facts/Artificial_intelligence/lJGauQwX">artificial intelligence</a> and the development of <a href="/facts/Bayesian_networks/Ry31vq6T">Bayesian networks</a> (see the article on <a href="/facts/Belief_propagation/TRY5LVbP">belief propagation</a>). He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models (see article on <a href="/facts/Causality/Swh496X7">causality</a>). In 2011, the <a href="/facts/Association_for_Computing_Machinery/abI2atlP">Association for Computing Machinery</a> (ACM) awarded Pearl with the <a href="/facts/Turing_Award/HbEEp0GF">Turing Award</a>, 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 <a href="/facts/Causality_(book)/FKn9Bb6o">Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference</a>, and <a href="/facts/The_Book_of_Why/tno1sjNc">The Book of Why</a>, a book on causality aimed at the general public.
Judea Pearl is the father of journalist <a href="/facts/Daniel_Pearl/KuKkFF0j">Daniel Pearl</a>, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in <a href="/facts/Pakistan/cbIsvJy1">Pakistan</a> connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002.

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