Vint Cerf, chair of the ACM 2012 Turing Centenary Celebration, remarked: "Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence and led to extraordinary achievements in machine learning."
Vice President of Research and Special Initiatives at Google Inc, Alfred Spector, said: "Modern applications of artificial intelligence, such as robotics, self-driving cars, speech recognition, and machine translation, deal with uncertainty. Pearl has been instrumental in supplying the rationale and valuable technology that allow these applications to flourish."
Professor Judea Pearl is the author of the book Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, published by Cambridge University Press, which is described by ACM as one of the most influential works in shaping the theory and practice of knowledge-based systems.
Reproduced courtesy of Cambridge University Press.
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