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Judea Pearl Rumelhart Prize Awarded In 2011

 
Judea Pearl

Judea Pearl

Award Name : Rumelhart Prize

Year of Award : 2011

Award for : Science and Engineering

Location : Los Angeles, California, United States

 

Judea Pearl (born 1936) is an Israeli-born 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). He is the 2011 winner of the ACM 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".He was awarded the 2011 Rumelhart Prize for Contributions to the Theoretical Foundations of Human Cognition.

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