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Fuzzy Set: 1965 … Fuzzy Logic: 1973 …
BISC: 1990 … Human-Machine Perception: 2000 - …
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Curriculum VitaeLotfi
A. Zadeh joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in
1959, and served as its chairman from 1963 to 1968. Earlier, he was a member
of the electrical engineering faculty at Columbia University. In
1956, he was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey. In addition, he held a
number of other visiting appointments, among them a visiting professorship in
Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1962 and 1968; a visiting scientist appointment
at IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA, in 1968, 1973, and 1977; and
visiting scholar appointments at the AI Center, SRI International, in 1981,
and at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford
University, in 1987-1988. Currently he is a Professor in the Graduate School, and
is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing).
Until 1965, Dr. Zadeh's
work had been centered on system theory and decision analysis. Since then,
his research interests have shifted to the theory of fuzzy sets and its
applications to artificial intelligence, linguistics, logic, decision
analysis, control theory, expert systems and neural networks. Currently, his
research is focused on fuzzy logic, soft computing, computing with words, and
the newly developed computational theory of perceptions and precisiated natural language.
An alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT, and Columbia University, Dr. Zadeh is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM and
AAAI, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He held NSF Senior
Postdoctoral Fellowships in 1956-57 and 1962-63, and was a Guggenheim
Foundation Fellow in 1968. Dr. Zadeh was the recipient of the IEEE Education
Medal in 1973 and a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. In 1989,
Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation, and in 1991
received the Berkeley Citation, University of California.
In 1992, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the IEEE
Richard W. Hamming Medal "For seminal contribu
tions to information science and systems, including
the conceptualization of fuzzy sets." He became a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Computer Sciences and
Cybernetics Section) in 1992 and received the Certificate of Commendation for
AI Special Contributions Award from the International Foundation for
Artificial Intelligence. Also in 1992, he was awarded the Kampe
de Feriet Prize and became an Honorary Member of
the Austrian Society of Cybernetic Studies.
In 1993, Dr. Zadeh received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers "For seminal contributions in system theory, decision
analysis, and theory of fuzzy sets and its applications to AI, linguistics,
logic, expert systems and neural networks." He was also awarded the Grigore Moisil Prize for
Fundamental Researches, and the Premier Best Paper
Award by the Second International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology.
In 1995, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor "For pioneering
development of fuzzy logic and its many diverse applications." In 1996,
Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Okawa Prize "For
outstanding contribution to information science through the development of
fuzzy logic and its applications."
In 1997, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the B. Bolzano Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic "For outstanding achievements in fuzzy
mathematics." He also received the J.P. Wohl
Career Achievement Award of the IEEE Systems, Science and Cybernetics
Society. He served as a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished
Visitor, lecturing at the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, and as the Gulbenkian
Foundation Visiting Professor at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 1998, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Edward Feigenbaum Medal by the International Society for
Intelligent Systems, and the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award by the
American Council on Automatic Control. In addition, he received the
Information Science Award from the Association for Intelligent Machinery and
the SOFT Scientific Contribution Memorial Award from the Society for Fuzzy
Theory in Japan. In 1999, he was elected to membership in Berkeley
Fellows and received the Certificate of Merit from IFSA (International Fuzzy
Systems Association). In 2000, he received the IEEE Millennium Medal; the
IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems; the ASPIH 2000 Lifetime Distinguished
Achievement Award; and the ACIDCA 2000 Award fot
the paper, "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words -- From
Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions." In
2001, he received the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award for seminal contributions
to AI through his development of fuzzy logic.
Dr. Zadeh holds honorary doctorates from
Paul-Sabatier University, Toulouse, France; State
University of New York, Binghamton, NY; University of Dortmund, Dortmund,
Germany; University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; University of Granada, Granada,
Spain; Lakehead University, Canada; University of
Louisville, KY; Baku State University, Azerbaijan; the Silesian Technical
University, Gliwice, Poland; the University of
Toronto, Toronto, Canada; the University of Ostrava,
Ostrava, the Czech Republic; the University of
Central Florida, Orlando, FL; and the University of Hamburg, Hamburg,
Germany; and the University of Paris(6), Paris, France. Dr. Zadeh
has authored close to two hundred papers and serves on the editorial boards
of over fifty journals. He is a member of the Advisory Board, Fuzzy
Initiative, North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany;
Advisory Board, Fuzzy Logic Research Center, Texas A&M University,
College Station, Texas; Advisory Committee, Center for Education and Research
in Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Iasi,
Romania; Senior Advisory Board, International Institute for General Systems
Studies; the Board of Governors, International Neural Networks Society; and
is the Honorary President of the Biomedical Fuzzy Systems Association of
Japan and the Spanish Association for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies. In
addition, he is a member of the International Steering Committee, Hebrew
University School of Engineering; a member of the Advisory Board of the
National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo; a member of the Governing Board, Knowledge Systems
Institute, Skokie, IL; and an honorary member of the Academic Council of
NAISO-IAAC.
Biographical Note
LOTFI A. ZADEH is a Professor in the Graduate School,
Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley. In
addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft
Computing).
Lotfi Zadeh is an alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT and Columbia University. He held visiting appointments at the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT; IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA;
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language
and Information, Stanford University. His earlier work was concerned in the
main with systems analysis, decision analysis and information systems. His
current research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft
computing, which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing,
evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and parts of machine
learning. The guiding principle of soft computing is that, in general, better
solutions can be obtained by employing the constituent methodologies of soft
computing in combination rather than in stand-alone mode.
Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and
IFSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign
Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is a recipient of the IEEE
Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor,
the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B. Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal, the AACC
Richard E. Bellman Central Heritage Award, the Grigore
Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award, the
IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Acheivement
Award, the SOFT Scietific Contribution Memorial
Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the
ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, and other awards and honorary doctorates. He has
published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the
conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is
serving on the editorial boards of over fifty journals.
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