Re: Cause and effect

["vu" <vu@as.nida.ac.th>]

Hi anh Tuan and all,

> 	Re the above thread, can I ask Vu~ in which journal, 
> issue number, pages, etc the above article was published? 

This is the lecture notes of a so-called "faculty research lecture" given
by Prof. Pearl very recently (less than a month ago) at UCLA. The materials
of journal articles, by the time of printing, are usually at least 2
year-old.   If you want to read the paper but are not able to retrieve it
from the web  site, i can send it to you in postscript format.

> 	I have not read this article, but it seems peculiar for 
> a computer science expert who writes about the philosophical 
> subject of "cause and effect". 

Prof. Pearl got his B.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering and his M.S. in
Physics, and has devoted his past 20 years or so on the study and
developement of probabilistic  and causal reasoning, at times collaborating
with first-class statisticians. 

Usually, you can't tell what kind of backgrounds a computer scientist has.
When heared of the word "computer scientist", ordinary people at once
picture to themselves  glass-bottom wearing, coke-drinking, pizza-eating
typists. 

Well, i have seen influential computer scientists (or at least that's what
they prefer to call themselves) with PhDs in math, statistics, physics,
philosophy,  even hydrology! Perhaps that's the reason we are now being
able to feast on the fruits of the information age. 

Cheers, --  Vu~