Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2025).
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Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American electrical engineer, computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks. He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with…
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Born 4 September 1936 · Q92824
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2025).
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Awarded Kampé de Fériet Award (2024).
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Published “Reporting animal research: Explanation and elaboration for the ARRIVE guidelines 2.0” in PLOS Biology — cited 1,998 times.
Published “The ARRIVE guidelines 2.0: Updated guidelines for reporting animal research” in PLOS Biology — cited 4,810 times.
Awarded Fellow of the American Statistical Association (2019).
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Awarded Dickson Prize in Science (2016).
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Awarded ACM Fellow (2015).
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Awarded Harvey Prize (2012).
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Awarded Rumelhart Prize (2011).
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Awarded Turing Award (2011).
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calcu
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Published “Causality” — cited 6,611 times.
Published “Causal inference in statistics: An overview” in Statistics Surveys — cited 1,723 times.
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (2008).
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Awarded ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award (2003).
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His son, Daniel Pearl, a journalist working for the Wall Street Journal was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, leading Judea and the other members of the family and friends to create the Daniel Pearl Foundation
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Awarded Lakatos Award (2001).
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Awarded IJCAI Award for Research Excellence (1999).
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Published “Causal Diagrams for Epidemiologic Research” in Epidemiology — cited 3,254 times.
Awarded AAAI Fellow (1990).
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Published “TIME OF CONSCIOUS INTENTION TO ACT IN RELATION TO ONSET OF CEREBRAL ACTIVITY (READINESS-POTENTIAL)” in Brain — cited 1,857 times.
And started work on probabilistic artificial intelligence
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Studied at New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (1965).
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Studied at Rutgers University, Master of Science (1965).
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Studied at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science (1960).
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Born 1936-09-04.
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To Eliezer and Tova Pearl, who were Polish Jewish immigrants, grew up in Bnei Brak
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