Judea Pearl
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"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 Association for Computing Machinery/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".{{cite web

/ author = Gold, Virginia

/ title = Judea Pearl Wins ACM A.M. Turing Award for Contributions that Transformed Artificial Intelligence

/ publisher = The Association for Computing Machinery

/ date = March 15, 2012

/ url = http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2012/turing-award-11

/ accessdate = March 15, 2012

/ archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/66CCWiGVz

/ archivedate = March 15, 2012

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