The UCLA Academic Senate has elected Professor Judea Pearl , one of the nation's leading researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence and automated reasoning, as the 81st Faculty Research Lecturer.
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UCLA's annual faculty research lecture presents the university's most distinguished scholars to the public. The stated purpose is to accord these individuals the high recognition that is their due and to give faculty, students and citizens of the community an opportunity to understand the lecturer's scholarly achievements. In 1965, he proved this point by contriving an apparent contradiction of Faraday's Law to discover new phenomena in superconductivity. In 1995, he dissolved Simpson's Paradox, a statistical illusion first noted a century earlier, and thus created a new method of processing cause-effect relationships. These ground-breaking achievements span a remarkable scientific career in superconductivity, advanced memory systems, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and the art and science of causal thinking.