The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect - Rilegato

Pearl, Judea; Mackenzie, Dana

 
9780241242636: The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
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ISBN 10: 0241242630 ISBN 13: 9780241242636
Casa editrice: Allen Lane, 2018

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'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read'
- Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow


'"Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have provided the theoretical basis for progress in artificial intelligence and have redefined the term "thinking machine"'
- Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, Inc.





The influential book in how causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence

'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking and cancer and carbon dioxide and global warming. But today, that taboo is dead. The causal revolution, sparked by world-renowned computer scientist Judea Pearl and his colleagues, has cut through a century of confusion and placed cause and effect on a firm scientific basis. Now, Pearl and science journalist Dana Mackenzie explain causal thinking to general readers for the first time, showing how it allows us to explore the world that is and the worlds that could have been. It is the essence of human and artificial intelligence. And just as Pearl's discoveries have enabled machines to think better, The Book of Why explains how we can think better.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Judea Pearl is a world-renowned Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, known for his world-leading work in AI and the development of Bayesian networks, as well as his theory of causal and counterfactual inference. In 2011, he won the most prestigious award in computer science, the Alan Turing Award. He has also received the Rumelhart Prize (Cognitive Science Society), the Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) and the Lakatos Award (London School of Economics), and he is the founder and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
Dana Mackenzie, a Ph.D. mathematician turned science writer, has written for such magazines as Science, New Scientist, and Discover.

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Editore
Allen Lane
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0241242630
ISBN 13 
9780241242636
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
432
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781541698963: Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1541698967 ISBN 13:  9781541698963
Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2020
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