Happy Birthday, Judea Pearl! Pearl received the 2011 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning. In this video, Pearl reflects on how his early education in Tel Aviv sparked his love of science and discovery. Many of his teachers, some as early as grade school, were Jewish professors who had been forced out of German universities in the 1930s under Nazi antisemitic laws, years before the Ho

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Happy Birthday, Leslie Lamport! Lamport received the 2013 #ACMTuringAward for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of distributed and concurrent systems, notably the invention of concepts such as causality and logical clocks, safety and liveness, replicated state machines, and sequential consistency. Here, Lamport talks about the discovery that he is most proud of: https://bit.ly/3EjYYeX | ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

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