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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Editor’s note: Lotfi Zadeh died in 2017 at the age of 96. His parents—his father a businessman and newspaper correspondent, his mother a doctor—were comfortably well off. “I Research in Iran was nonexistent.” Vital Statistics Name Lotfi A.