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[...]
Celebrating the Pollsters: Bayes Won .. The era of Fisher and Pearson is over!
Obama win vindicates Nate Silver Despite some incredulous political pundits, the FiveThirtyEight statistician appears to have correctly predicted the winner in all 50 states. Not so obvious to most of you will be that Silver is using a “new” kind of math .. Bayesian Statistics. [...]