The field of Artificial Intelligence has changed a great deal since
the 80s, and arguably no one has played a larger role in that
change than Judea Pearl. Judea Pearls work made probability
the prevailing language of modern AI and, perhaps more
significantly, it placed the elaboration of crisp and meaningful
models, and of effective computational mechanisms, at the
center of AI research. This book is a collection of articles in
honor of Judea Pearl, written by close colleagues and former
students. Its three main parts, heuristics, probabilistic
reasoning, and causality, correspond to the...