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	NPR : Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed's Interfaith Dialogues
		NPR : Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed's Interfaith Dialogues
		Fresh Air from WHYY, October 10, 2006 · Judea Pearl is the father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl and author of I am Jewish.
		Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA, and President of the Daniel Pearl Foundation.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=6230947 (167 words)

	Judea Pearl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Judea Pearl is a computer scientist and statistician, best known for his prominent work on the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence, and in particular on Bayesian networks.
		Pearl received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technion, Israel, in 1960, a Master degree in Physics from Rutgers University, U.S.A, in 1965, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, U.S.A, in 1965.
		Judea Pearl was one of the pioneers of Bayesian networks and the probabilistic approach to artificial intelligence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judea_Pearl (262 words)

	The Purpose Prize \| Judea Pearl and Akbar Ahmed
		Pearl and his wife, Ruth, set up the Daniel Pearl Foundation a week after their son's death was confirmed in 2002.
		When Pearl, 69 years old, and Ahmed, 63, began appearing together around the country, sitting on couches discussing Islam and modernity and Israel and Palestine, Ahmed joked that the world must really be in bad shape if it was up to two grandfathers to bring the polarized sides together.
		Pearl was born in Tel Aviv in 1936 and remembers the 1948 war that established Israel's statehood.
	www.leadwithexperience.org /prize/finalists/pearl-ahmed.cfm (1432 words)

	Amazon.de: Causality. Models, Reasoning, and Inference: English Books: Judea Pearl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Pearl presents a unified account of the probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual and structural approaches to causation, and devises simple mathematical tools for analyzing the relationships between causal connections, statistical associations, actions and observations.
		Judea Pearl and his colleagues at UCLA (and elsewhere) have published a large number of papers and written unpublished reports over the past 15 years, in which they have developed a modern, analytical approach to causation.
		Pearl concludes it by comparing his theory of causality to the first mathematical tool,the abacus: "But the really challenging problems are still ahead: We still do not have a causal understanding of poverty and cancer and intolerance, and only the accumulation of data and the insight of great minds will eventually lead to such understanding.
	www.amazon.de /Causality-Models-Reasoning-Inference-Judea/dp/0521773628 (1111 words)

	Amazon.ca: Causality : Models, Reasoning, and Inference: Books: Judea Pearl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Judea pearl's book provides an attractive tour of recent work, in which he has played a central role, on causal models and causal reasoning.
		Pearl does not assume that the modeller is able, a priori, to determine what the correct model is. Instead, Pearl asks what conclusions can be drawn if the modeller is able to substantiate only parts of the model.
		Pearl supposes that the modeller is able, a priori, to determine, exactly what the correct model is. One must be able to specify the model correctly, knowing what the possible confounding variables are, what moderators are important, etc., in advance.
	www.amazon.ca /Causality-Reasoning-Inference-Judea-Pearl/dp/0521773628 (1378 words)

	CNN.com - Daniel Pearl to be remembered around the world - Feb. 19, 2003
		Pearl, 38, was kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2002 while researching links between Pakistani extremists and terrorist Richard Reid, who was later convicted of trying to blow up a plane with a shoe bomb.
		Pearl, chief of the Journal's South Asia bureau, was raised in the San Fernando Valley and went to Stanford University.
		Judea Pearl said one of the main points of the interfaith services was to show his son's killers that their anti-Semitic crime has brought people of different religions together.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/02/19/pearl.anniversary.ap/index.html (428 words)

	Newhouse A1
		Judea Pearl, born in Israel, lost his son in a religiously motivated act of hatred.
		Pearl is president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, founded to explore "the root causes of this tragedy" in the spirit and style of Daniel Pearl.
		It was November 2002 when Judea Pearl reached out in a phone call to Ahmed, a scholar known for his interfaith dialogue, and one from a culture his son was trying to understand.
	www.newhousenews.com /archive/okeefe121803.html (1061 words)

	UCLA Engineering: UCLA Engineer Fall 2004
		Pearl was honored for his seminal contributions to artificial intelligence and for “demonstrating the remarkable influence that computer science and artificial intelligence can have on other sciences, on practical tools and on human thought.”
		In 1995, Pearl was elected to the National Academy of Engineering for developing the foundations for reasoning under uncertainty, and he is one of the few recipients of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Award for Research Excellence.
		In 2002, Pearl and his wife established the Daniel Pearl Foundation (www.danielpearl.org) to honor the memory and life of their son.
	www.engineer.ucla.edu /magazine/pearl.html (1081 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		PEARL: I think it played a role in it because if you look at the video, the murder video, it turned out that the murderers selected only sentences that are connected with his Jewish-ness and his connection to Israel, so apparently it played a role.
		PEARL: I am very happy to hear that so many groups are coming, voicing condemnations and speaking on her behalf but I think they're missing, what we're missing is coordinated effort against not this case but against the general phenomena of abducting journalists.
		Judea Pearl is the father of the late Daniel Pearl, "The Wall Street Journal" reporter who was abducted and murdered.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0601/20/lkl.01.html (6937 words)

	Officials: 9/11 plotter killed Pearl - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Pearl, director of the Cognitive Systems Laboratory and a computer science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the father of murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
		Judea Pearl, who was born in Israel, will be in Pittsburgh this week for a series of public and private talks along with Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University in Washington, D.C., and the former high commissioner of Pakistan for Great Britain.
		Judea Pearl said in an interview that the identification of his son's alleged killer is in some ways "irrelevant to the magnitude and the nature of the hatred."
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_161167.html (597 words)

	DBLP: Judea Pearl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Blai Bonet, Judea Pearl: Qualitative MDPs and POMDPs: An Order-Of-Magnitude Approximation.
		Judea Pearl, Thomas Verma: A Theory of Inferred Causation.
		Rina Dechter, Judea Pearl: The Optimality of A* Revisited.
	www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Pearl:Judea.html (1339 words)

	Internet Reporter Wins Daniel Pearl Award for Courage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Judea Pearl, who has become an activist on issues of press freedom, says the danger is intensifying for journalists who report from conflict-ridden regions.
		Judea Pearl says the non-profit organization is fighting the hatred that took his son's life, a hatred he says is not between Muslims and Westerners.
		Judea Pearl says the work is all part of his conception of revenge, spreading friendship to overcome those who spread division.
	www.voanews.com /english/2006-06-27-voa79.cfm (818 words)

	.:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::.
		When Alana told Daniel's parents about her plan, Judea and Ruth Pearl decided to expand it into a book that included the thoughts of prominent Jewish figures in government, science, the arts and other fields.
		A native of Israel, Dr. Judea Pearl lives in Encino, Calif., and is a professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA.
		Pearl also serves as president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, which was formed by the slain journalist's family and friends to promote interfaith understanding.
	www.jewishledger.com /articles/2004/12/01/news/news08.txt (1210 words)

	Akbar Ahmed, Bishop John Bryson Chane, and Judea Pearl on terrorism, London bombing, Islam, Judaism, Christianity. -- ...
		Judea Pearl: As a secularist, I must say that the safeguards come from rules and principles that are higher than the religion.
		Judea Pearl: What Akbar says supports my claim that it is not religion to blame, but a combination of religion and culture.
		Judea Pearl: I think I'm the only contributor to the book, "After Terror," who makes the point that there are absolute partitions between good and evil, moral and immoral.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/172/story_17204_5.html (2792 words)

	JewishJournal.com
		Pearl grew up in a family that nourished the intellectual and musical talents he was to display later on.
		Judea Pearl was elected to the elite National Academy of Engineering in 1995 "for developing the foundation for reasoning under uncertainty," and earlier spent a sabbatical year at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
		Pearl had chided the Israeli press for first making public this information, fearing that it might adversely affect the investigation by Pakistani officials and the return of his son’s body.
	www.jewishjournal.com /home/preview.php?id=8192 (1063 words)

	Salem State College: SSC Sponsors Dr. Judea Pearl Speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Professor Pearl, a specialist in artificial intelligence, lost his son to Pakistani terrorists in a brutal beheading that was televised around the world nearly three years ago.
		I am Jewish." In his book, Judea Pearl has sought to describe what it means to be Jewish, citing the importance of Jewish history and its heritage of accomplishment and decency - even for non-religious Jews.
		Pearl blames the mullahs, imams and religious clerics of the Middle East for his son's death because they refuse to speak out against the terrorism.
	www.salemstate.edu /collegerel/CRS-041208_judea_pearl_speech.htm (330 words)

	Lecture honors Daniel Pearl - The Stanford Daily Online
		Amanpour was the keynote speaker for the inaugural Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture, a program sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office for Religious Life, the Center for Jewish Life, the Daniel Pearl Foundation and the ASSU Speakers Bureau.
		Pearl, a 1985 Stanford graduate and a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and killed by a Pakistani militant group in 2002.
		She was chosen and invited primarily by Daniel Pearl's parents, Ruth and Judea, and the Daniel Pearl foundation.
	daily.stanford.edu /article/2006/10/18/lectureHonorsDanielPearl (2152 words)

	USATODAY.com - Danny Pearl's words live on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		On the first Father's Day since their son, Daniel Pearl, 38, was killed by a radical Islamic group in Pakistan, Ruth and Judea Pearl are not what you expect.
		Pearl's mother, who was born in Baghdad, Iraq, does not regret her son's decision to head off to London and become a foreign correspondent in 1996.
		And Pearl's parents laugh that he was sent to cover an election in Iran and came back instead with a story about a group of women weaving the world's biggest carpet.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2002/2002-06-24-pearl.htm (874 words)

	Daniel Pearl Press Release
		To be considered for the Daniel Pearl Fellowship, journalists applying to AFPF in 2003 from Pakistan must submit a two-page statement explaining how their career goals match the mission and spirit of Daniel Pearl as a journalist and a human being.
		The paradox overshadowing Pearl's death was that his killers, Islamic militants angry with the West, murdered a reporter who was particularly sensitive to their views and grievances and committed to explaining them to his readers.
		The Daniel Pearl Foundation, founded by his family is continuing his life mission to encourage dialogue among people of different cultures, to reduce cultural and religious hatred and create a platform for responsible and creative journalism.
	www.pressfellowships.org /2003Dpearlpressrelease.html (673 words)

	News: Slain journalist's father brings message of peace - OCRegister.com
		Judea Pearl, father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, recalls his son's life in O.C. appearance.
		Daniel Pearl, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped in January 2002 in Pakistan while on his way to interview a supposed terrorist leader.
		Since his son's death, Judea Pearl, a computer science professor at UCLA, has been speaking to audiences around the nation and the world.
	www.ocregister.com /ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1359691.php (892 words)

	Judea Pearl On His Son's Death A Year On
		A year after the gruesome murder of Mumbai-based Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was made known to the world, his abductors and killers have still not been fully identified though some of them, notably Omar Saeed Sheikh, were sentenced to die by a Pakistani court.
		At the height of Operation Enduring Freedom, Pearl had refused to travel to Afghanistan keeping in mind his wife Mariane, who was pregnant at that time.
		Pearl, a jazz enthusiast who played the piano and violin, will be remembered on October 10, his birthday, which is now being celebrated as Daniel Pearl Music Day.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/feb/21inter.htm (902 words)

	Pearl and Ahmed dialogue for acknowledgment and reconciliation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Though Daniel Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, was killed in a way that his father called “a quantum jump in the level of cruelty in the history or mankind,” Judea Pearl chose to pursue revenge of a different sort—revenge through dialogue, acknowledgement and reconciliation.
		Relying on his son’s example, Pearl said the dialogues are a way to broaden world views and narrow the gaps between cultures.
		Pearl admitted that he hadn’t seen the film, and (with a bit of a laugh) said he was not likely to in the future.
	www.wm.edu /news/?id=3583 (1127 words)

	Judea & Ruth Pearl: I Am Jewish
		The terrorists later released a video tape of Pearl's murder by beheading, and Pearl's last words, "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish" became part of the lexicon of the war on terror waged in the aftermath of al Qaida's attacks of September 11 of the previous year.
		Columnist Thomas L. Friedmann notes that while he never met Pearl, the men are linked by their profession and their interest in trying to understand the Middle East in a non-biased manner.
		At the same time, the Pearls have tried to arrange the essays into loose topics, which allow more serious readers to get a wide range of opinions which relate to the same aspect of Judaism and form stark contrasts to each other on those topics.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/pearl.html (473 words)

	Judea Pearl's misguided 'faith' in liberalism and Islamists - Reader comments at DanielPipes.org
		As for Judea Pearl, his liberalism has pushed him into unfortunate alliances with people like Akhbar Ahmed, with whom he goes around the world lip synching a highbrow version of "kumbaya" to gullible audiences.
		Daniel Pearl made the fatal mistake of thinking that empathy with Muslims, and trying to understand their worldview would serve as a talisman against their hatred.
		It appears that Judea Pearl is continuing his son's denial of Muslim anti semitism, by desperately trying to reach out and interact with them.
	www.danielpipes.org /comments/29300 (986 words)

	Daniel Pearl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Daniel Pearl (October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was a journalist who garnered international concern when he was kidnapped (and eventually murdered) in Karachi, Pakistan.
		Pearl's body was found cut into ten pieces and buried in a shallow grave in the outskirts of Karachi on May 16.
		In the video, Pearl's body is shown naked from the waist up with his throat slit at about 1 minute and 55 seconds into the video.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Daniel_Pearl (1399 words)

	Anti-Zionism is Racism - by Judea Pearl. Why Anti-Zionism = Racism holds true.
		Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science at UCLA and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, named after his son.
		Daniel Pearl was a journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan while investigating the case of a convicted shoe bomber.
		The Foundation seeks continue Daniel Pearl's mission and uphold his principles which included: uncompromised objectivity and integrity; insightful and unconventional perspective; tolerance and respect for people of all cultures; unshaken belief in the effectiveness of education and communication; and the love of music, humor, and friendship.
	www.zionismontheweb.org /Anti-Zionism_is_racism.htm (1834 words)

	israelinsider: Briefs: Slain journalist's father, Judea Pearl, among winners of $100,000 prizes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Former Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode and the father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl are among the inaugural winners of $100,000 prizes being awarded Tuesday to Americans over 60 who devised innovative ways to address tough social problems.
		Judea Pearl, 70, of Los Angeles, won one of the five Purposes Prizes in partnership with Akbar Ahmed, 63, of Washington.
		The two professors, from UCLA and American University, teamed up after Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was killed by terrorists and have traveled across the U.S. to lead discussions on religious tolerance and Jewish-Muslim understanding.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Briefs/9367.htm (755 words)

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