Judea Pearl
Computer scientist and philosopher
Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher who helped develop Bayesian networks. He wrote The Book of Why, a general-audience book on causality.
1 summary 21 min of listening
American Born 1936 in Tel Aviv, Israel
About Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1936. He is an electrical engineer, computer scientist and philosopher, and he has championed a probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence. He also developed Bayesian networks. He is also credited with a theory of causal and counterfactual inference built on structural models. In 2011 the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) gave him the Turing Award for contributions to artificial intelligence, including a calculus covering probability and causation. Pearl has written several books. One is the technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference. The Book of Why is his book on causality for general readers.