![Judea Pearl, UCLA [image courtesy ACM] Judea Pearl, UCLA [image courtesy ACM]](http://www.cccblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/pearl.jpg)
As part of a continuing series of interviews with thought leaders in computing, our friends at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have published a podcast this week featuring 2011 ACM A.M. Turing Award winner Judea Pearl: The interview reveals the fascinating role of philosophy and empirical science in Pearl's work, which encompasses probability, causality, and counterfactual thinking. Pearl ...

