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Judea Pearl

1936 - Today

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Judea Pearl (born September 4, 1936) is an Israeli-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). In 2011, 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 calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Judea Pearl has received more than 815,084 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Judea Pearl is the 75th most popular computer scientist (down from 72nd in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Israel (down from 215th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Israeli Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Judea Pearl ranks 75 out of 245. Before him are Leonard Adleman, Evelyn Berezin, Adi Shamir, Stephen Cook, Richard M. Karp, and Sergey Lebedev. After him are Richard E. Stearns, Jan Koum, Kathleen Antonelli, Joseph Sifakis, Radia Perlman, and Ruth Teitelbaum.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Judea Pearl ranks 262. Before him are Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Kazuo Koike, Michel Aumont, Feliciano Rivilla, Sancho Gracia, and Albert Ayler. After him are Jair Marinho, Alejandro Maldonado, Stella Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Richard E. Stearns, and August Schellenberg.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Judea Pearl ranks 242 out of 466. Before him are Ron Arad (1951), Gila Almagor (1939), Adi Shamir (1952), Tom Segev (1945), Yakir Aharonov (1932), and Itamar Ben-Gvir (1976). After him are Giora Spiegel (1947), Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (1938), Yossi Beilin (1948), Avi Dichter (1952), David Deutsch (1953), and Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (1944).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In Israel

Among computer scientists born in Israel, Judea Pearl ranks 3. Before him are Amir Pnueli (1941), and Adi Shamir (1952). After him are Noga Alon (1956), and Daphne Koller (1968).

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