THE ACM A. M. TURING AWARD

“Dr. Pearl’s work provided the original paradigm case for how to do statistical AI. By placing structured knowledge representations at the heart of his work, and emphasizing how these representations enabled efficient inference and learning, he showed the field of AI how to build statistical reasoning systems that were actually telling us something about intelligence, not just statistics.”

Limor Fix Director, University Collaborative Research Group Intel Labs

For more information see www.intel.com/research.

ACM, Intel, and Google congratulate JUDEA PEARL for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning.

“Judea Pearl is the most prominent advocate for probabilistic models in artificial intelligence. He developed mathematical tools to tackle complex problems that handle uncertainty. Before Pearl, AI systems had more success in black and white domains like chess. But robotics, self-driving cars, and speech recognition deal with uncertainty. Pearl enabled these applications to flourish, and convinced the field to adopt these techniques.”

Alfred Spector Vice President, Research and Special Initiatives Google Inc.

For more information, see http://www.google.com/corporate/ index.html and http://research.google.com/.