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Judea Pearl

1936 - Today

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Judea Pearl (Hebrew: יהודה פרל; 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). In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the 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". He is the author of several books, including the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Judea Pearl is the 98th most popular computer scientist (down from 75th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Israel (up from 242nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Israeli Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Judea Pearl ranks 98 out of 245. Before him are Edward Feigenbaum, Kristen Nygaard, Gary Kildall, Stephen Cook, Kathleen Antonelli, and Betty Holberton. After him are Marlyn Meltzer, Ed Roberts, Robin Milner, Alan Cox, Charles P. Thacker, and Eric S. Raymond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Judea Pearl ranks 288. Before him are Saburō Kawabuchi, Igor Rodionov, Albert Ayler, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Henri Richard, and Zdeněk Svěrák. After him are Tamás Mendelényi, Jean-Claude Turcotte, Elisabeth Kopp, Diana Hyland, Christopher Alexander, and Kazuo Koike.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Judea Pearl ranks 232 out of 466. Before him are Reuven Shiloah (1909), Arik Einstein (1939), Ruth Arnon (1933), Etgar Keret (1967), Hiam Abbass (1960), and Nehemiah Persoff (1919). After him are Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926), Gideon Levy (1953), Meir Shalev (1948), Tamir Pardo (1953), Achinoam Nini (1969), and Gila Almagor (1939).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Israel

Among computer scientists born in Israel, Judea Pearl ranks 3. Before him are Amir Pnueli (1941), and Adi Shamir (1952). After him are Noga Alon (1956), and Daphne Koller (1968).

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