Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl is a computer scientist, best known for his prominent work on the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence, and in particular on Bayesian networks.

Biography

Pearl received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel, in 1960, a Master degree in Physics from Rutgers University, U.S.A, in 1965, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, U.S.A, in 1965. He worked at RCA Research Laboratories on superconductive parametric and storage devices and at Electronic Memories, Inc., on advanced memory systems. He then joined UCLA in 1970, where he currently works. In 2002, his son Daniel Pearl was killed in Pakistan, leading Judea and the other members of the family and friends to create the Daniel Pearl Foundation ^*.

Research

Judea Pearl was one of the pioneers of Bayesian networks and the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence. His work is also intended as a high-level cognitive model. He is interested in the philosophy of causality, artificial intelligence and knowledge representation, probabilistic and causal reasoning, nonstandard logics, and learning strategies. Pearl is described as "one of the giants in the field of artificial intelligence” by UCLA computer science professor Richard Korf.^*

Books

Heuristics, Addison-Wesley, 1984
Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems, Morgan-Kaufmann, 1988
Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, Cambridge University Press, 2000

Papers

List of paper on Pearl's personal website

Awards

2004--2003 Allen Newell Award
2003--Pekeris Memorial Lecture
2002--Corresponding Member, Spanish Academy of Engineering Lakatos Award
2000--AAAI Classic Paper Award
1999--IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in Artificial Intelligence
1996--UCLA 81st Faculty Research Lecturer
1995--Member, National Academy of Engineering
1990--Fellow, American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
1988--Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
1975--NATO Senior Fellowship in Science
1965--RCA Laboratories Achievement Award

External link

Judea Pearl's personal website