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Lotfi Zadeh

Also Known As Lotfi Aliasgerzadeh · Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh
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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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Birth Year
1921 1
Birth Date
1921-02-04 1
Death Year
2017 1
Death Date
2017-09-06 1
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1. Lotfi A. Zadeh - Wikipedia
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    Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (4 February 1921 - 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor
  • Lead sentence, birth year
    Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (4 February 1921 - 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor
  • Lead sentence, death date
    Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (4 February 1921 - 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor
  • Lead sentence, death year
    Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh (4 February 1921 - 6 September 2017) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor
  • 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.
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