On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 02:31 PM, Optimizzin Al-gorithym
wrote:
> Professor Yehuda Pearl, father of murdered
> Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl,
> has told Ha'aretz that he fears that making
> public his son's Israeli citizenship could
> adversely affect investigative efforts by
> Pakistani police to apprehend the killers
> and track down the murdered reporter's
> body.
>
> In a telephone conversation from his Los
> Angeles residence, Professor Pearl
> expressed regret and anger over the
> revelation by the Israeli media of his family's
> "Israeli connection." The U.S. media, which
I had wondered if Judea Pearl, the UCLA professor and author of the book
"Causality," was related to the kidnapped Pearl. A couple of minutes
with a search engine would've turned up the answer...a few days ago I
did one search, but I think I used "Jonathan Pearl" instead of "Daniel
Pearl," due to a brain fart. I did the search a few minutes ago and
confirmed that Yehuda Pearl is the same Judea Pearl who's a professor of
cognitive science at UCLA.
Just last night I was mentioning to Lucky and Robin at a party that the
Pearl book was one of my current favorites. ("Causality" is a formal
analysis of how causes propagate, going beyond just using probability to
establish correlations. Pearl has moved beyond his views of a decade ago
that he expressed in his earlier classic book on probabalistic networks.
There are connections between causal networks and the Dempster-Shafer
belief networks and possible worlds theories. )
So, finding that the Judea (Yehuda...never heard him called that before)
Pearl is the father of Daniel Pearl is...interesting.
Like I said, his name just came up last night in a completely different
context from that of his son's kidnapping and execution.
My article from last Apri, "Reputations, Belief, Identity, and
Networks," is at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cypherpunks@lne.com/msg00143.html
--Tim May
"That government is best which governs not at all." --Henry David Thoreau
