Lotfi A. Zadeh
4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017
Lotfi A. Zadeh was an Azerbaijani-born American mathematician, electrical engineer and computer scientist. He joined the University of California, Berkeley in 1959 and in 1965 published the paper "Fuzzy sets", which introduced a framework for reasoning with degrees of membership rather than binary truth values. His work founded fuzzy logic and possibility theory, later applied in control systems, consumer electronics and artificial intelligence.
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Life events
Born to an Iranian Azerbaijani journalist father and a Russian physician mother.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe attended Alborz College in Tehran after the move.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgLeft Iran for the United States to continue graduate study.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted an MS in electrical engineering at MIT.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgCompleted a PhD in electrical engineering and joined the Columbia faculty.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgBecame a professor of electrical engineering and later chaired the department.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe paper in Information and Control introduced sets with graded membership and founded the field of fuzzy logic.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgPublished "Fuzzy sets as a basis for a theory of possibility", extending his framework to uncertainty.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgDied at the age of 96; he was buried in Baku.
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