Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (4 February 1921 - 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics, including fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities and fuzzy events. He was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy.
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Awardhonorary doctor of Toulouse-III University 1 Awardhonorary member of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan 1 Awardhonorary doctor of Baku State University 1 AwardIEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal 1 AwardIEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 1 AwardNizami Ganjavi Gold Medal 1 Awarddoctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University 1 AwardACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award 1 Awardhonorary doctorate of the University of Granada 1 Awardhonorary doctorate of the University of Oviedo 1 AwardBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 1 AwardRichard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award 1 AwardRufus Oldenburger Medal 1 AwardBenjamin Franklin Medal 1 FAQs
How did Lotfi Zadeh change computer science education at Berkeley?
He turned Berkeley's electrical engineering department into EECS in 1968.
Zadeh became chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963. In 1968 he completed the transformation of that department into the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, known as EECS. The source credits this move with helping Berkeley rise in computer science education and research, and with leading other research universities around the world to add computer science to their electrical engineering departments.
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1. Wikidata: Lotfi A. Zadeh
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Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (; Azerbaijani: Lütfəli Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə; Persian: لطفی علیعسکرزاده; Russian: Лютфали Рагим оглы Алескерзаде 4 February 1921 - 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
Early life section, birth name
Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, as Lotfi Aliasgerzadeh.
Early life section, name change
While in the United States, he shortened his family name, creating a new middle name from the part he removed, and was thenceforth known as Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh.
- In Field: Artificial Intelligence, Lead paragraph
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