Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl is a computer scientist, best known for his 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 [1].

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.

Books

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

Papers

• see 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