I attended a terrific lecture by Michael Jordan at Rice in 2016[0] where he introduced the idea of inferential thinking. Jordan has several videos of that talk

I attended a terrific lecture by Michael Jordan at Rice in 2016[0] where he introduced the idea of inferential thinking. Jordan has several videos of that talk online, such as [1]. The big idea, the grand challenge, is that core statistical theory doesn't have a place for runtime and other computational resources, and core computational theory doesn't have a place for statistical risk. Merging those two tracks into one body of knowledge will keep people busy for decades. After his lecture, I asked Prof. Jordan about the term "inferential thinking", as I was familiar with Jeanette Wing's work on computational thinking. He said that he coined the term "inferential thinking". [0] http://dsp.rice.edu/2016/12/30/michael-jordan-2016-bryce-lecture/ http://dsp.rice.edu/2016/12/30/michael-jordan-2016-bryce-lec... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ02K0kWKzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ02K0kWKzg