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Judea Pearl

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Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and the development of Bayesian networks.

Judea Pearl is credited for "laying the foundations of modern artificial intelligence, so computer systems can process uncertainty and relate causes to effects." He is one of the pioneers of Bayesian networks and the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence and one of the first to mathematize causal modeling in the empirical sciences. 

His work is also intended as a high-level cognitive model. He is interested in the philosophy of science, knowledge representation, nonstandard logic, and learning. Pearl is described as "one of the giants in the field of artificial intelligence" by UCLA computer science professor Richard Korf. His work on causality has "revolutionized the understanding of causality in statistics, psychology, medicine, and the social sciences," according to the Association for Computing Machinery.

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