Judea Pearl is a professor of computer science at UCLA and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation, named after his son, the slain Wall Street Journal reporter. The Foundation was formed to "continue Daniel's life-work of dialogue and understanding and to address the root causes of his tragedy." Judea Pearl is co-editor with his wife Ruth Pearl of “I Am Jewish: Personal Reflections Inspired by the Last Words of Daniel Pearl” (Jewish Lights, 2004), winner of the National Jewish Book Award. Judea Pearl was born in Tel Aviv and is a graduate of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.