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.

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/a-turing-award-for-helping-make-computers-smarter/

http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/pearl_2658896.cfm