2011 Turing Award Lecture - Judea Pearl - Part 1

Judea Pearl presented his Turing Award Lecture at the AAAI-12 Conference on July 24 2012. The title of his one hour talk,

The Mechanization of Causal Inference: A “mini” Turing Test and Beyond

gives both a brief overview of the history, and a glimpse of the future of a field of work that holds much promise in advancing the discipline of AI. A video of the talk can be found at the ACM Turing award site here.

Pearl's earlier work in the 80's on combinatorial search lead to the book, Heuristics:Intelligent Search Strategies for Computer Problem Solving published in 1984. This was followed by, Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference in 1988, and Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference in 2000 of which a second edition was published in 2009.