Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science at UCLA. The author of three books, he has won numerous awards, including the Alan Turing Award. He lives in Los Angeles, California.
Dana Mackenzie is a PhD mathematician turned science writer and has written for Science, New Scientist, and Scientific American, among others. He lives in Santa Cruz, California.
One of Science Friday's "Best Science Books of 2018"
"The Book of Why ... questions and redefines the building blocks of
our AI systems"--theverge.com
"'Correlation is not causation.' That scientific refrain has had
social consequences...Judea Pearl proposes a radical mathematical
solution...now bearing fruit in biology, medicine, social science
and AI."--Nature
"Anyone interested in probing connections between cause and effect,
and their relevance for the future of AI, will find this a
fascinating and provocative book. Highly recommended."--CHOICE
"Cause and effect is one of the most heavily debated,
difficult-to-prove things in science and medicine. This book really
gets you thinking about cause and effect as it applies to issues of
our time, such as: How come cigarettes were around for years and we
never showed they were causing cancer or heart disease? The authors
goes through these cases like an interrogation, and it's just
extraordinary."--Science Friday
"Have you ever wondered about the puzzles of correlation and
causation? This wonderful book has illuminating answers and it is
fun to read."--Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize
in Economic Sciences and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
"If causation is not correlation, then what is it? Thanks to Judea
Pearl's epoch-making research, we now have a precise answer to this
question. If you want to understand how the world works, this
engrossing and delightful book is the place to start."--Pedro
Domingos, professor of computer science, University of Washington,
and author of The Master Algorithm
"Illuminating... The Professor Pearl who emerges from the pages of
The Book of Why brims with the joy of discovery and pride in his
students and colleagues... [it] not only delivers a valuable lesson
on the history of ideas but provides the conceptual tools needed to
judge just what big data can and cannot deliver."--New York
Times
"Judea Pearl has been the heart and soul of a revolution in
artificial intelligence and in computer science more
broadly."--Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft
Research Labs
"Judea Pearl is on a mission to change the way we interpret data.
An eminent professor of computer science, Pearl has documented his
research and opinions in scholarly books and papers. ... With the
release of this historically grounded and thought-provoking book,
Pearl leaps from the ivory tower into the real world...Pearl has
given us an elegant, powerful, controversial theory of
causality."--American Mathematical Society
"Lively and accessible...Pearl was one of the visionary leaders of
the causal revolution, and The Book of Why is his crowning
achievement."--Jewish Journal
"Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the
theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence... and
they have redefined the term 'thinking machine.'"--Vint Cerf, Chief
Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.
"Seriously, everyone should read The Book of Why."--Jeff Witmer,
American Mathematical Monthly
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