Judea Pearl (1963 - )

• Pearl was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, then British-controlled Mandatory Palestine, in 1936.
• Throughout his career, Pearl has worked on Probability theory, Causal reasoning, Bayesian networks, and Artificial intelligence.
• He was appointed as Professor of Computer Science and Statistics and Director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory, at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
• Pearl won the A.M. Turing Award in 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) noting his "innovations that enabled remarkable advances in the partnership between humans and machines."

Text: TheBestSchools.org. 2021. The 50 Most Influential Living Computer Scientists - TheBestSchools.org. [online] Available at: <https://thebestschools.org/features/most-influential-computer-scientists/> [Accessed 31 May 2021].
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect, co-authored with Dana Mackenzie (Basic Books, 2018).

 Author: Sara Singh (2021) LJMU Student