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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

That enabled him to be financially independent when he came to the United States to enroll in graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge. MIT didn’t have many graduate students at the time,” Zadeh recalled, “so it was fairly easy to get in, even though the University of Teheran had no track record.”. “No

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). But we want to give them cause to continue to press forward." ( MIT Technology Review ). I got beaten down a number of times." This is unusual. Marketwatch ).

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