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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. As a child, Zadeh was surrounded by governesses and tutors, while as a young adult, he had a personal servant. It was a comfortable, undemanding environment; I was not challenged internally. Research in Iran was nonexistent.”