2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal Winner: Lotfi A. Zadeh
by Emily V. Driscoll |
October 6th, 2009 |
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The 2009 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering is presented to Lotfi Zadeh for his invention and development of the field of fuzzy logic, a mathematical system that captures aspects of the ambiguity of human language and thought, which has solved problems in areas such as artificial intelligence and the automated control of machines.
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Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC) |
Subject: Electrical Engineering
Award: Benjamin Franklin Medal
To learn more about the Franklin Awards and the other 2009 medalists visit the Franklin Institute Awards home page.
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June 27th, 2009 at 5:22 pm (#)
I picked up his book at random in 1980, and immediately I saw that his new math concept was a winner. Fuzzy Logic allowed the development of Approximate Reasoning, and natural language calculations.