Lofti Zadeh
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| Born | Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh February 4, 1921 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR |
| Residence | United States |
| Fields | Mathematics, electrical engineering, artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | U.C. Berkeley |
| Alma mater |
University of Tehran Columbia University |
| Thesis | Frequency analysis of variable networks (1949) |
| Doctoral advisor | John R. Ragazzini |
| Doctoral students | Joseph Goguen |
| Known for | Founder of fuzzy mathematics, fuzzy set theory, and fuzzy logic, Z numbers, Z-transform |
| Notable awards |
Eringen Medal (1976) IEEE Hamming Medal (1992) Rufus Oldenburger Medal (1993) IEEE Medal of Honor (1995) 2012 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow AAAS Fellow AAAI Fellow Member of the National Academy of Engineering Founding Member of Eurasian Academy |
Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh (/ˈzɑːdeɪ/; Azerbaijani: Lütfəli Rəhim oğlu Əsgərzadə;Persian: لطفی علیعسگرزاده; born February 4, 1921), is a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is best known for proposing the fuzzy mathematics consisting of those fuzzy related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information.
He is a founding member of Eurasian Academy.
Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, as Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh, to an Iranian Azerbaijani father from Ardabil, Rahim Aleskerzade, who was a journalist on assignment from Iran, and a Russian Jewish mother, also an Iranian citizen, Fanya Korenman, who was a pediatrician from Odessa. The Soviet government at this time courted foreign correspondents, and the family lived well while in Baku. Zadeh attended elementary school for three years there, which he has said "had a significant and long-lasting influence on my thinking and my way of looking at things."
In 1931, when Zadeh was ten years old, his family moved to Tehran in Iran, his father's homeland. Zadeh was enrolled in Alborz College, which was a Presbyterian missionary school, where he was educated for the next eight years, and where he met his future wife, Fay. Zadeh says that he was "deeply influenced" by the "extremely decent, fine, honest and helpful" missionaries from the United States who ran the college. "To me they represented the best that you could find in the United States – people from the Midwest with strong roots. They were really 'Good Samaritans' – willing to give of themselves for the benefit of others. So this kind of attitude influenced me deeply. It also instilled in me a deep desire to live in the United States." During this time, Zadeh was awarded several patents.
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