Review: ‘The Book of Why’ Examines the Science of Cause and Effect

“The Book of Why” charts the recent history of a subject that has preoccupied philosophers at least since Aristotle.Credit…Basic Books By Jonathan A. Knee Everyone knows that the cock’s crowing at dawn does not “cause” the sun to rise....

Israeli-American Professor Judea Pearl Given Award for Courage

Pearl said that his life experience and the rise of “Zionophobic” racism in academia had made it “necessary” for him to take a stand. Judea Pearl (photo credit: DANIEL PEARL FOUNDATION) Judea Pearl, father of the late journalist...

Professor Judea Pearl codes languages to challenge paradigms of computer science

Judea Pearl, an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA and pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, checks his email on a 20-year-old Wyse terminal. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin) Judea Pearl’s fourth-grade teacher and classmates insisted...

JUDEA PEARL – COGNITIVE SYSTEMS LABORATORY

Research was partially supported by grants from AFOSR, NIH, NSF and ONR (MURI). (R-493):  [pdf] [bib]C. Cinelli, A. Forney, and J. Pearl “A Crash Course in Good and Bad Controls,” UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory, Technical Report (R-493),...

Judea Pearl, “The Mathematics of Cause and Effect”

Professor Judea Pearl from UCLA presented at a Seminar series event for the Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering at Columbia University. His presentation on November 4, 2013 was titled “The Mathematics of Cause and Effect”.   References https://datascience.columbia.edu/seminarvideo_judeapearl

Judea Pearl: Causal Reasoning, Counterfactuals, Bayesian Networks, and the Path to AGI

Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and a winner of the Turing Award, that’s generally recognized as the Nobel Prize of computing. He is one of the seminal figures in the field of artificial intelligence, computer science, and statistics. He has...

Keynote: Judea Pearl – The New Science of Cause and Effect, Pydata, LA 2018

The talk will explain why data science should embrace an engine for processing cause-effect relationships. I will describe the structure of this engine, how it has revolutionized the data-intensive sciences and how it is about to revolutiones machine...

Why19 at Stanford, March 2019

Beyond Curve Fitting: Causation, Counterfactuals, and Imagination-based AI AAAI Spring Symposium, March 25-27, 2019, Stanford, CA Motivation In recent years, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have received enormous attention from the general...

THE BOOK OF WHY: THE NEW SCIENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

Publisher’s Description Authors’ Bios Judea Pearl Dana Mackenzie Scientific Background Causality and the sciences Causality and Statistics Causality and Artificial Intelligence (video) Causality and Cognitive Science (video) Causality...