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 - …

 

Welcome to the BISC Program

 


Awards, memberships, honors and fellowships

Awards (reverse chronological order)

  • Egleston Medal, Columbia University, New York, New York, 2007.
  • Silicon Valley Engineering Hall of Fame, 2006.
  • Pioneer Award for Outstanding Contributions to Soft Computing, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2006.
  • J. Keith Brimacombe IPMM Award in recognition of development of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, 2005.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005.
  • V. Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal, International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF), Barcelona, Spain, 2004.
  • Wall of Fame, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF), Paderborn, Germany, 2004.
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), Halifax, Canada, 2003.
  • Norbert Wiener Award, IEEE Society of Systems, Man and Cybernetics, “For Pioneering Contributions to the Development of System Theory, Fuzzy Logic, and Soft Computing,” 2003.
  • ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, 2000.
  • ASPIH 2000 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award
  • IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems, 2000.
  • ACIDCA 2000 Award for the paper, "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words -- From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions."
  • IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000
  • Scientific Contribution Memorial Award, Japanese Society of Fuzzy Theory (SOFT), 1999.
  • Edward Feigenbaum Medal, International Society for Intelligent Systems, 1998.
  • Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, American Council on Automatic Control, 1998.
  • Bolzano Medal, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 1997.
  • J.P. Wohl Career Achievement Award of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, 1997.
  • Okawa Prize, Okawa Foundation, Japan, 1996.
  • IEEE Medal of Honor, 1995.
  • Rufus Oldenburger Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1993.
  • Grigore Moisil Prize for Fundamental Researches, Romanian Society for Fuzzy Systems, 1993.
  • Premier Best Paper Award, 2nd Int'l Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1993.
  • IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 1992.
  • Kampe de Feriet Award, IPMU (Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty), “For his introduction of fuzzy set and possibility theories and his pioneering work on the theory of approximate reasoning.” 1992.
  • Honda Prize, Honda Foundation, Japan, 1989.
  • IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984.
  • Outstanding Paper Award, International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic, Winnipeg, Canada, 1984.
  • Eringen Medal, Society of Engineering Science, 1975.
  • IEEE Education Medal, 1973


Academy memberships  

  • Foreign member, Korean Academy of Science & Technology, 2005.
  • Foreign member, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2005.
  • Foreign member, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005.
  • Foreign member, Finnish Academy of Sciences, 2003.
  • Foreign member, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, 2001.
  • Member, National Academy of Engineering, 1973.


Honorary doctorates

  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2008.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2007.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, 2006.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, 2006.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China, 2004.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan, 2004.
  • Civitate Honoris Causa, Budapest Tech (BT) Polytechnical Institution, Budapest, Hungary, 2004.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, 2004.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, 2003.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University Aurel Vlaicu, Arad, Romania, 2003.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria, 2003.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Paris (6), Paris, France, 2001.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2000.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 2000.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 1998.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic, 1998.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Silesian Technical University, Gliwice, Poland, 1998.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Baku State University, Baku, Azerbaijan, 1997.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, 1997.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Lakehead University, Canada, 1997.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, 1996.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 1995.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, 1993.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, 1989.
  • Doctor Honoris Causa, Paul-Sabatier University, Toulouse, France, 1986.


Fellowships, memberships and lectureships

  • College of Fellows, INNS, 2008.
  • Fellow, IFSA, 2000.
  • Member, Berkeley Fellows, 1999.
  • Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery, 1994.
  • Honorary Member, Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, 1992.
  • Fellow, AAAI, 1991.
  • Fellow, World Council on Cybernetics, 1981.
  • Fellow, AAAS, 1980.
  • Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1968.
  • Fellow, IEEE, 1958.
  • NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, 1956-57 and 1962-63.


Miscellaneous

  • Advisory Board, National Institute of Information, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Advisory Board, Mathematical Modeling Research Group, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
  • Honorary Professor, Beijing University of Technology, 2005.
  • Certificate of Merit, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), 2000.
  • Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Computer Society, 1998-
  • Gulbenkian Foundation Visiting Professor, Lisbon, Portugal, 1997.
  • Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor, Singapore, 1997.
  • Distinguished Lecturer, ASME, 1996-
  • Honorary Professor, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy, Azerbaijan, 1993.
  • Berkeley Citation, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1991.

 


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Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh

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

 

 



 
 
 

 

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