Judea Pearl, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Judea Pearl

computer scientist

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1936

Place of Birth: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, physicist, university teacher, philosopher, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Judea Pearl (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 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".Judea Pearl is the father of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan connected with Al-Qaeda and the International Islamic Front in 2002 for his American and Jewish heritage.