A Turing Award for Helping Make Computers Smarter

Date de publication : Mar 16, 2012 7:5:26 PM

Google search, I.B.M.’s Watson Jeopardy-winning computer, credit-card fraud detection and automated speech recognition.

There seems not much in common on that list. But it is a representative sampling of the kinds of modern computing chores that use the ideas and technology developed by Judea Pearl, the winner of this year’s Turing Award.