Judea Pearl is a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. The
author of three highly influential scholarly books, he is a winner
of the Alan Turing Award, often considered the equivalent of the
Nobel Prize for computer science. He is a member of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences, and was one of the first ten
inductees into the IEEE Intelligent Systems Hall of Fame. He has
received numerous awards and honorary doctorates, including the
Rumelhart Prize (Cognitive Science Society), the Benjamin Franklin
Medal (Franklin Institute) and the Lakatos Award (London School of
Economics). He is the founder and president of the Daniel Pearl
Foundation. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Dana Mackenzie is a Ph.D. mathematician turned science
writer, and has written for such magazines as Science,
New Scientist, Scientific American,
Smithsonian, Nautilus, and Discover. His book,
The BigSplat, or How Our Moon Came to Be, was named a
Booklist Editors' Choice and selected as an Audiobook of the Year
for 2010 by Audible.com. He received the 2012 Communication Award
(Joint Policy Board for Mathematics) and the 2015 Chauvenet Prize
for mathematical exposition (Mathematical Association of America).
He lives in Santa Cruz, CA.
"Have you ever wondered about the puzzles of correlation and
causation? This wonderful book has illuminating answers and it is
fun to read."--Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Sciences and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
"Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the
theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence... and
they have redefined the term 'thinking machine.'"--Vint Cerf, Chief
Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.
"Judea Pearl has been the heart and soul of a revolution in
artificial intelligence and in computer science more
broadly."--Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft
Research Labs
"If causation is not correlation, then what is it? Thanks to Judea
Pearl's epoch-making research, we now have a precise answer to this
question. If you want to understand how the world works, this
engrossing and delightful book is the place to start."--Pedro
Domingos, professor of computer science, University of Washington,
and author of The Master Algorithm
"'Correlation is not causation.' That scientific refrain has had
social consequences...Judea Pearl proposes a radical mathematical
solution...now bearing fruit in biology, medicine, social science
and AI."--Nature
"Lively and accessible...Pearl was one of the visionary leaders of
the causal revolution, and The Book of Why is his crowning
achievement."--Jewish Journal
One of Science Friday's "Best Science Books of
2018"
"Cause and effect is one of the most heavily debated,
difficult-to-prove things in science and medicine. This book really
gets you thinking about cause and effect as it applies to issues of
our time, such as: How come cigarettes were around for years and we
never showed they were causing cancer or heart disease? The authors
goes through these cases like an interrogation, and it's just
extraordinary."--Science Friday
"Anyone interested in probing connections between cause and effect,
and their relevance for the future of AI, will find this a
fascinating and provocative book. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"Illuminating... The Professor Pearl who emerges from the pages of
The Book of Why brims with the joy of discovery and pride in his
students and colleagues... [it] not only delivers a valuable lesson
on the history of ideas but provides the conceptual tools needed to
judge just what big data can and cannot deliver."--New York
Times
"Judea Pearl is on a mission to change the way we interpret data.
An eminent professor of computer science, Pearl has documented his
research and opinions in scholarly books and papers. ... With the
release of this historically grounded and thought-provoking book,
Pearl leaps from the ivory tower into the real world...Pearl has
given us an elegant, powerful, controversial theory of
causality."--American Mathematical Society
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