Probabilistic and Causal Inference: The Works of Judea Pearl

Professor Judea Pearl won the 2011 Turing Award "for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning." This book contains the original articles that led to the award, as well as other seminal works, divided into four parts: heuristic search, probabilistic reasoning, causality, first period (1988-2001), and causality, recent period (2002-2020). Each of these parts starts with an introduction written by Judea Pearl. The volume also contains original, contributed articles by leading researchers that analyze, extend, or assess the influence of Pearl's work in different fields: from AI, Machine Learning, and Statistics to Cognitive Science, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences. The first part of the volume includes a biography, a transcript of his Turing Award Lecture, two interviews, and a selected bibliography annotated by him.

教授Judea Pearl於2011年獲得圖靈獎，以「通過發展概率和因果推理的計算方法對人工智能做出基礎貢獻」為理由。本書包含了獲獎的原始文章，以及其他具有重要影響力的作品，分為四個部分：啟發式搜索、概率推理、因果關係，第一時期（1988-2001），以及因果關係，近期（2002-2020）。每個部分都以Judea Pearl撰寫的介紹開始。該書還包含了領先研究人員撰寫的原創文章，分析、擴展或評估Pearl的工作對不同領域的影響，包括人工智能、機器學習、統計學、認知科學、哲學和社會科學。該書的第一部分包括一個傳記、圖靈獎演講的文字記錄、兩個訪談以及由他撰寫的選定書目註解。