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Judea Pearl Wins Turing Award

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-hearty-handshake dept.

alphadogg writes "Judea Pearl, a longtime UCLA professor whose work on artificial intelligence laid the foundation for such inventions as the iPhone's Siri speech recognition technology and Google's driverless cars, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. The annual Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award, sometimes called the 'Nobel Prize in Computing,' recognizes Pearl for his advances in probabilistic and causal reasoning. His work has enabled creation of thinking machines that can cope with uncertainty, making decisions even when answers aren't black or white."

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  1. Thinking machines? by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 0, Troll

    Time to get Butlerian Jihad on Peal's ass. Seriously though, "thinking machines"? Are we really anywhere near there yet?

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