judea-pearl.txt

1988

Judea Pearl

Bayesian networks & causal reasoning

Gave AI a rigorous way to reason under uncertainty — Bayesian networks — and later about cause and effect. ACM Turing Award 2011.

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Key work

Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems (opens in new tab)

Morgan Kaufmann (book), 1988

Recognition

ACM A.M. Turing Award 2011 (opens in new tab)

Citation: “For fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.”

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