AI pioneer Judea Pearl turns 90, having revolutionized the field twice
ruthstarkman · x · 2026-09-09
Zachary Lipton celebrated Judea Pearl's 90th birthday, crediting him with revolutionizing AI research twice: driving the field's probabilistic turn in the 1980s, then building the systematic treatment of causal identification in the 1990s/2000s. Fellow researchers joined in the tribute.
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