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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. But instead of taking the comfortable route—becoming a professor in Iran—he emigrated to the United States. “I

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

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But like so many people my age, I grew up in the ‘70s and ‘80s where I got hooked on personal computers. There’s very, very little regulation on the automobile because the power of the United States was as an industrial behemoth, and the idea is like, “We don’t want to stop that.” He was a brilliant, brilliant person.

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