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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. But instead of taking the comfortable route—becoming a professor in Iran—he emigrated to the United States. “I I could have stayed in Iran and become rich, but I felt that I could not do real scientific work there,” he told Spectrum.

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ACS Meeting Symposium Focuses on Conversion and Utilization of CO2 for Fuels and Chemicals

Green Car Congress

Robert Dorner and his colleagues are looking at converting CO 2 and hydrogen (both won from sea-water) over catalysts, using the CO 2 as a building block to form synthetic fuel. Our research proposes the utilization of CO 2 into fuel, recycling the gas and using it as a raw material rather than a waste product. Earlier post.).