The workshop is planed to honor the life and the scientific achievements of Judea Pearl.The workshop brings together prominent scholars from the three areas in which Judea Pearl had landmark contributions, Heuristics, Probabilistic Reasoning and Causality. It is centered around an edited book; a tribute to Judea Pearl that includes 30 articles in the three areas. The book is co-edited by Pearl's past students and colleagues: Rina Dechter, Hector Geffner and Joe Halpern who also organize the workshop.
During the workshop day about about 20 scholars, whose work appear in the book, will present their work. The workshop is open to the public. In addition to about 30 visitors from around the world, it will be attended by faculty and students at UCLA, and in California, and by community members.
This event coincides with the 25th anniversary of the first paper by Judea in which he introduced "Bayesian networks" in 1985. In this context, a unique book exhibit will be on display, featuring rare first-editions of several milestones in the history of causal and probabilistic reasoning, from Huygens (1657) and Bernoulli (1713) to Bayes (1763) and Laplace (1812), from Hume (1739) and Mill (1843) to Boole (1847), Galton (1895) and Turing (1953).
The workshop facilitates disseminating the ideas developed in the past few decades in the three fields, featuring leading scholars and the edited book that include state of the art articles as well as historical perspectives of the three fields. The workshop presentations and book will draw additional researchers into the three fields.
The workshop was planed to honor the life and the scientific achievements of Judea Pearl.The workshop brought together prominent scholars from the three areas in which Judea Pearl had landmark contributions, Heuristics, Probabilistic Reasoning and Causality. It was centered around an edited book; a tribute to Judea Pearl that includes 30 articles in the three areas. The book is co-edited by Pearl's past students and colleagues: Rina Dechter, Hector Geffner and Joe Halpern who also organize the workshop. During the workshop day about about 20 scholars, whose work appear in the book, presented their work. The workshop was open to the public. In addition to about 30 visitors from around the world, it was attended by faculty and students at UCLA, and in California, and by community members. It provided an excellent and unique opportunities for students and young faculty to interact with scholars in the three areas that centered around pearl's research. This event coincides with the 25th anniversary of the first paper by Judea in which he introduced "Bayesian networks" in 1985. A unique book exhibit was on display, featuring rare first-editions of several milestones in the history of causal and probabilistic reasoning, from Huygens (1657) and Bernoulli (1713) to Bayes (1763) and Laplace (1812), from Hume (1739) and Mill (1843) to Boole (1847), Galton (1895) and Turing (1953). The workshop provided a great opportunity for disseminating the ideas developed in the past few decades in the three fields, featuring leading scholars and the edited book that include state of the art articles as well as historical perspectives of the three fields. The workshop drew participants from southern California, who greatly benefit from the presentations, as well as researchers coming to honor Pearl. The workshop is summarized in two websites: http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/TRIBUTE/pearl-tribute2010.htm which include also the video-presentation of some of the participants lectures including the lecture by Judea Pearl. The link: www.engineer.ucla.edu/newsroom/more- news/archive/2010/pearl provides a description of the event that took place at UCLA. The workshop provided a great opportunity to both honor Judea Pearl and to put his accomplishments in perspective. It presented to the public an edited volume, published by College Publications, with articles by leading scholars on the three areas in which Pearl made seminal contributions: heuristic search, probabilistic reasoning and casual modeling. The workshop participants were: -------------------------------- Blai Bonet, Departamento de Computaci´on, Universidad Sim´on Bol´ivar, Venezuela Bozhena Bidyuk, Google, US Adnan Darwiche, Computer Science Department, UCLA, US Thomas Dean, Google, US Rina Dechter, School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine, US Michael Gelfond, Department of Computer Science, Texas Tech University, US Hector Geffner, ICREA and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Moises Goldszmidt, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, US Sander Greenland, Departments of Epidemiology and Statistics, UCLA, US Joseph Y. Halpern, Computer Science Department, Cornell University, US David Heckerman, Microsoft Research, US Christopher Hitchcock, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, US Robert Holte, Departament of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Canada Michael I. Jordan, Departments of EECS & Statistics, UC Berkeley Richard E. Korf, Computer Science Department, UCLA, US Vladimir Lifschitz, Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Austin, US Robert Mateescu, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Dana Nau, Computer Science Department, University of Maryland US Ira Pohl , Computer Science Department, UC Santa Cruz, US David Poole, Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada Edward T. Purcell, US Thomas Richardson, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, US James Robins, Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Harvard University, US Stuart Russell, Department of EECS & CS, UC Berkeley, US Yoav Shoham, Computer Science Department, Stanford University, US Jonathan Schaeffer, Departament of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Canada Richard Scheines, Department of Philosophy, CMU, US Jian Tian, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, US Christopher Winship, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, US Ingrid Zukerman, Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
