Judea Pearl, a Big Brain Behind Artificial Intelligence, Wins Turing Award Judea Pearl, has been named the 2011 ACM Turing Award winner. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award, recognizes Pearl for his advances in probabilistic and causal reasoning. His work has enabled crea[...]
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Anniversary of a book
16 years ago, on February 1st, journalist Daniel Pearl was murdered in Afghanistan. His wife gave birth to a son, Adam Daniel Pearl, 4 months after Daniel’s death. His father Judea Pearl, is a leader on the creation of artificial intelligence, a winner of the Turing Award. Judeah has also c[...]
May 31st, 2016 - 10:32 am § in Misc.
I am called a “capo”
Our name was Negri, meaning the N word until in Austria we became Schwartz. Those Schwartzes who did not get to the US, became Nazi ashes. Over on FACEBOOK, Dmitry V Vaysenberg has called me a capo’ My answer: For any Jew not to celebrate the great freedoms wrought by the American founders[...]
February 7th, 2016 - 1:37 am § in Misc.
BUCHENWALD 98: The book I would like to write
14 years ago, on February 1st, Judea Pearl’s son, Daniel Pearl, was beheaded in Pakistan while working as a journalist . I am writing this brief entry into the Buchenwald series in an effort to convince my siblings why they should help me create the book abput our father’s role in[...]
I call on Pakistan .. Try YOUR Citizen under Shariya!
Now do you believe in capital punishment? “Omar Sheikh, a British-Pakistani, serving life imprisonment in Hyderabad prison, tried to hang himself with the exhaust of the prison cell late Friday,” AFP. According to the Pearl project at Georgetown, however, Sheikh was not the murderer [...]
Teshuvah … better than God
Tomorrow night begins the 24 hours of Yom Kippur, the Jewish fast and day of atonement. I am writing now because the date is soon and because a few days ago I posted an essay about Yom Kippur by relating how my sister had tried to influence me by invoking Yom Kippur as a day […][...]
THE Ave Challenge: Who will get the call from Stockholm next Sunday night.
THE-Ave.US Challenge: who is going to win the Nobel? Next Sunday night (US time), about 9 AM Monday Stockholm time, the Karolinska is going to wake up one to three biologists and announce they have won the Nobel Prize. Thompson Reuters has their list based on citation, I call this hokey. I[...]
What is a mitzvah?
Why Are Jews So Different? My niece will soon go to the front of her congregation to read from the Torah. This is the act by which she will become a bat Mitzvah .. daughter of the law, a Jew entitled to lead other Jews in reading about our laws and history. I hope she […][...]
September 11th, 2013 - 5:03 am § in Misc.
The price of the 9/11 Memorial … nearly a billion dollars and $60 million a year to operate
The foundation that runs the memorial estimates that once the roughly $700 million project is complete, it will cost $60 million a year to operate. By comparison, the National Park Service budgeted $8.4 million this year to operate and maintain Gettysburg National Military Park and $3.6 million for [...]
Are there Jewish atheists?
A World Without Jewish Atheists … no Israel, less science, worse law, massive loss of literature and art ???? I had not realized that this was even a question until my brother sent me a very derogatory email asking how could I, an atheist, have said Torah blessings at my kids’ bna[...]