Lotfi A. Zadeh

"Well, I knew it was going to be important. That much I knew. In fact, I had thought about sealing it in a dated envelope with my predictions and then opening it 20-30 years later to see if my intuitio…"

"The advent of the Computer age has stimulated a rapid expansion in the use of quantitative techniques for the analysis of economic, urban, social, biological and other types of systems in which it is …"

"A fuzzy set is a class of objects with a continuum of grades of membership. Such a set is characterized by a membership function which assigns to each object a grade of membership ranging between zero…"

"In many, many fields. I expected people in the social sciences-economics, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, politics, sociology, religion and numerous other areas to pick up on it. It's been somewh…"

"Conceptual graphs and fuzzy logic are two logical formalisms that emphasize the target of natural language, each of which is focused on one of the two mentioned desired features of a logic for handlin…"

"he successes of modern control theory in the design of highly accurate space navigation systems have stimulated its use in the theoretical analyses of economic and biological systems. Similarly, the e…"

"I can't say that anything has been "exciting". Rather, I would choose the word "interesting". Not too long ago, the Chinese University of Hong Kong conducted a survey to determine which consumer produ…"

"As an indispensable constituent of AI, fuzzy logic is a superset of conventional logic that has been extended to handle the concept of partial truth, where the truth value can range between completely…"