Pearl was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Judea and Ruth Pearl. His father is an Israeli-American of Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was an Iraqi Jew whose family was saved from the Farhud by Muslim neighbors.
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Meet Daniel Pearl Parents
- Judea Pearl
Judea Pearl is an Israeli-American computer scientist and philosopher, best known for championing the probabilistic approach to artificial and the development of Bayesian networks. He is also credited for developing a theory of causal and counterfactual inference based on structural models. In 2011, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded Pearl with the Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science, “for fundamental contributions to artificial intelligence through the development of a calculus for probabilistic and causal reasoning”. He is the author of several books, including The Technical Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, and The Book of Why, a book on causality aimed at the general public.
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- Ruth Pearl
Ruth Pearl was an Israeli-American software developer.
From the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s, Pearl worked as a computer software developer and systems analyst. Her talent for troubleshooting mainframes and other computer systems of that era led to a long career at TRW and NCR Corp. She later consulted with major banks in the LA area and earned a reputation as a wizard troubleshooter.
After the kidnapping and murder of her son Daniel in 2002, Pearl and her family started the nonprofit Daniel Pearl Foundation to continue Daniel’s legacy and values. The organization seeks to promote tolerance, combat hatred, and nurture cross-cultural understanding, particularly through journalism, music, and dialogue, three of Daniel’s passions in life.
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