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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

Cars That Think

No doubt professor Zadeh’s enthusiasm for fuzziness has been reinforced by the prevailing political climate in the United States—one of unprecedented permissiveness,” said R. He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Another berated the theory’s scientific laxity. “No Kalman in 1972.