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 Connections
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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