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X-WR-CALNAME:Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Featuring Judea Pearl
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DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, our original speaker\, Lucy A
 harish\, is unable to travel to the U.S. at this time. While we hope to ha
 ve Aharish join us at a later date\, we are pleased to instead welcome Jud
 ea Pearl\, UCLA Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science and Statistics\
 , Director of the UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory\, and father of Daniel
  Pearl.\n\nWe have reached capacity for this event\, and registration is n
 ow closed. For all questions\, please email israelstudies@stanford.edu.\n\
 nOn Wednesday\, February 25\, the Jan Koum Israel Studies Program at the C
 enter on Democracy\, Development and the Rule of Law is pleased to welcome
  Judea Pearl to present the 2026 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture. He will di
 scuss his latest book\, Coexistence and Other Fighting Words: Selected Wri
 tings of Judea Pearl.\n\nThe Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture honors the life
  of Daniel Pearl (Class of '85)\, who was a journalist\, musician\, and fa
 mily man dedicated to the ideals of peace and humanity. In 2002\, Daniel w
 as kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Pakistan while working as a forei
 gn correspondent for the Wall Street Journal.\n\nThe 2026 Daniel Pearl Mem
 orial Lecture is presented by the Jan Koum Israel Studies Program in partn
 ership with Hillel at Stanford.\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\nCatalyzed by the kidn
 apping and murder of his son\, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl\,
  world-renowned computer scientist and philosopher Dr. Judea Pearl has bee
 n a relentless advocate for reason and understanding in writings and talks
  spanning the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Best known for hi
 s groundbreaking work on artificial intelligence\, Dr. Pearl turned his po
 wer of analysis to an anatomy of the hate that took his son's life\, the A
 rab-Israeli conflict\, the story of Israel\, antisemitism\, and other rela
 ted subjects. In Coexistence and Other Fighting Words\, Dr. Pearl collects
  the best of his work\, offering an indispensable guide to some of the mos
 t pressing issues of our time.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nJudea Pearl (born i
 n Tel-Aviv\, 1936) is the Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science and S
 tatistics at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Cognitive Systems Laboratory. H
 e is known internationally for his contributions to Artificial Intelligenc
 e\, human reasoning\, and philosophy of science. He has received numerous 
 scientific awards\, including the 2012 A. M. Turing Award (often described
  as the "Nobel Prize of computing"). Judea is the father of slain Wall Str
 eet Journal journalist Daniel Pearl and president of the Daniel Pearl Foun
 dation. He lectures and writes on Jewish identity\, Israel\, and the Arab-
 Israeli conflict. His latest book\, Coexistence and Other Fighting Words: 
 Selected Writings of Judea Pearl\, collects his essays written on these to
 pics between 2002 and 2025.
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LOCATION:Encina Hall\, Bechtel Conference Center
SUMMARY:Sold Out: Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Featuring Judea Pearl
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