Bart Kosko
| Bart Andrew Kosko | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 7, 1960 Kansas City, Kansas |
| Occupation | Writer and Professor of Electrical Engineering |
| Ethnicity | American |
| Notable works |
Fuzzy Thinking Nanotime Noise |
Bart Andrew Kosko (born February 7, 1960) is a writer and professor of electrical engineering and law at the University of Southern California (USC). He is notable as a researcher and popularizer of fuzzy logic, neural networks, and noise, and author of several trade books and textbooks on these and related subjects of machine intelligence.
Kosko holds bachelor's degrees in philosophy and in economics from USC, a master's degree in applied mathematics from UC San Diego, a PhD in electrical engineering from UC Irvine, and an online J.D. in law from the online Concord Law School. He is an attorney licensed in California and federal court, and worked part-time as a law clerk for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office.
Kosko is a political and religious skeptic. He is a contributing editor of the libertarian periodical Liberty, where he has published essays on “Palestinian vouchers” and the experience of taking the infamous California bar examination.
Kosko’s most popular book to date was the international best-seller Fuzzy Thinking, about man and machines thinking in shades of gray, and his most recent book was Noise. He has also published short fiction and the cyber-thriller novel Nanotime, about a possible World War III that takes place in two days of the year 2030. The novel’s title coins the term “nanotime” to describe the time speed-up that occurs when fast computer chips, rather than slow brains, house minds.
Kosko has a distinctive minimalist prose style, not even using commas in his last several books.
Kosko’s technical contributions have been in three main areas: fuzzy logic, neural networks, and noise.
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