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ADB approves $240M to help Kazakhstan modernize transport, improve connectivity

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It will also establish fast transportation links connecting Astana and Aktobe with the major oil and mineral–rich city of Atyrau, and the country’s only international commercial seaport in Aktau.

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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. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. His parents—his father a businessman and newspaper correspondent, his mother a doctor—were comfortably well off. Zadeh Date of Birth Feb.