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BP and Maersk collaborating to develop next-generation offshore drilling rigs for Project 20K

Green Car Congress

The agreement is part of BP’s Project 20K, a multi-year initiative to develop next-generation systems and tools for deepwater exploration and production that are beyond the reach of today’s technology. BP also sees potential applications for the technology in Egypt, Azerbaijan and other deepwater basins around the world.

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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. Two weeks later he had a fairly fleshed-out group of concepts to present to his collaborator at Rand, Richard Bellman. Part of the problem was the name—“fuzzy” is hardly proper terminology. Research in Iran was nonexistent.”