Judea Pearl
10 books
About the Author
Judea Pearl is a pioneering computer scientist and philosopher renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to artificial intelligence and causal inference. Born in Tel Aviv, he earned his PhD from Rutgers University and later joined the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became a professor and director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory. Pearl's work revolutionized how machines and humans understand causality, bridging statistics, philosophy, and computer science. His seminal book, The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, demystifies the principles of causation for a broad audience, explaining how to distinguish correlation from true cause. A Turing Award winner, Pearl continues to influence fields from epidemiology to economics through his innovative graphical models and probabilistic reasoning frameworks.
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