BISC

The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing                        Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department           

 

Fuzzy Set: 1965 … Fuzzy Logic: 1973 … BISC: 1990 … Human-Machine Perception: 2000 - …

 

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Awards, fellowships and honors

  1. Prizes
    1. Honda Prize, Honda Foundation, 1989.
    2. Kampe de Feriet Prize, 1992.
    3. Grigore Moisil Prize for Fundamental Researches, Romanian Society for Fuzzy Systems, 1993.
    4. Okawa Prize, Okawa Foundation, 1996.
  2. Medals
    1. IEEE Education Medal, 1973.
    2. Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 1975.
    3. IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984.
    4. IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 1992.
    5. Rufus Oldenburger Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993.
    6. IEEE Medal of Honor, 1995.
    7. Bolzano Medal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1997.
    8. Edward Feigenbaum Medal, International Society for Intelligent Systems, 1998.
    9. IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000
  3. Awards
    1. Congress Award, International Congress on Applied Systems Research and Cybernetics, Acapulco, 1980.
    2. Outstanding Paper Award, International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, Winnipeg, 1984.
    3. Premier Best Paper Award, 2nd Int'l Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1993.
    4. J.P. Wohl Career Acheivement Award of the IEEE Systems, Science and Cybernetics Society, 1997.
    5. Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, American Council on Automatic Control, 1998.
    6. Information Science Award, Association for Intelligent Machinery, 1998.
    7. Scientific Contribution Memorial Award, Japanese Society of Fuzzy Theory (SOFT), 1999.
    8. ACIDCA 2000 Award for the paper, "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words -- From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions."
    9. IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems, 2000.
    10. ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, 2001.
  4. Fellowships, memberships and lectureships
    1. NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, 1956-57 and 1962-63.
    2. Fellow, IEEE, 1958.
    3. Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1968.
    4. Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1973.
    5. Fellow, AAAS, 1980.
    6. Fellow, World Council on Cybernetics, 1981.
    7. Fellow, AAAI, 1991.
    8. Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Section of Computer Sciences and
    9. Cybernetics, 1992.
    10. Honorary Member, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1992.
    11. Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, 1994.
    12. Member, Berkeley Fellows, 1999.
    13. Fellow, IFSA, 2000.
  5. Honorary doctorates
    1. Doctorate Honoris Causa, Paul-Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, 1986.
    2. Doctorate Honoris Causa, State University of New York, Biushamton, NY, 1989.
    3. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, 1993.
    4. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 1995.
    5. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 1996.
    6. Doctorate Honoris Causa, Lakehead University, Canada, 1997.
    7. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1997.
    8. Doctorate Honoris Causa, Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1997.
    9. Doctorate Honoris Causa, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland, 1998.
    10. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 1998.
    11. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1998.
    12. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 2000.
    13. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2000.
    14. Doctorate Honoris Causa, University of Paris (6), Paris, France, 2001.
  6. Miscellaneous
    1. Certificate of appreciation, IEEE Computer Society, 1988.
    2. Berkeley Citation, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1991.
    3. Certificate of Commendation for AI Special Contribution, International Foundation for Artificial Intelligence, 1992.
    4. Distinguished Lecturer, ASME, 1996-
    5. Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor, Singapore, 1997.
    6. Gulbenkian Foundation Visiting Professor, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997.
    7. Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Computer Society, 1998-
    8. Certificate of Merit, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), 2000.

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Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh

Short Curriculum Vitae
Principal employment and affiliations
Editorial affiliations
Advisory committees
Awards, fellowships, honors 
Achievement and principal contributions
Summary of principal contributions
Primary publications
Statistics on the impact of Fuzzy Logic

 

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