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

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The project will reconstruct and upgrade about 299 km (186 miles) of a deteriorated section of the Aktobe–Makat road in the western part of the country, and introduce a modern transport information system to increase road traffic safety and logistics effectiveness.

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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. Part of the problem was the name—“fuzzy” is hardly proper terminology. Research in Iran was nonexistent.” Vital Statistics Name Lotfi A.