Des savants pas comme les autres (II) .. Dr. Lotfi Sadeh (Le père de l'intélligence artificielle )

Lotfi Asker Zadeh

Lotfali Askar Zadeh (Azerbaijani: Lütfi Əsgər Zadə , Persian: لطفعلی‌عسکرزاده), born February 4, 1921) is an Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist, and a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.


Lotfali A. Zadeh in 2004


Biography

He was born in Baku, to a Jewish mother (Fanya Koriman) and an Azerbaijani Muslim father (from Ardabil,[citation needed] center of Ardabil province of Iran), grew up in Iran, studied at Alborz High School and Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran (Fanni), and moved to the United States in 1944. He received an MS degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1946, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1949,

He taught for ten years at Columbia University and was promoted to full professor in 1957. He has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 1959. He published his seminal work on fuzzy sets in 1965 in which he detailed the mathematics of fuzzy set theory. In 1973 he proposed his theory of fuzzy logic.

Zadeh is married to Fay Zadeh and has two children, Stella Zadeh and Norman Zadeh.

Awards

In 1994 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1995 "For pioneering development of fuzzy logic and its many diverse applications."

Zadeh has a long list of achievements, but since 2003, Zadeh has received the following awards.

* In 1993 Azerbaijan bestowed him an honorary Professorship from the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy.
* Outstanding Contribution Award, Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), Halifax, Canada, 2003.
* Wall of Fame, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF), Paderborn, Germany, 2004.
* Civitate Honoris Causa, Budapest Tech Polytechnical Institution, Budapest, Hungary; Sept. 4, 2004.
* Doctor Honoris Causa, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan; Oct. 29, 2004.
* Doctor Honoris Causa, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China; Nov. 9, 2004.
* V. Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal, International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF), Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 15, 2004.
* Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005.
* Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 2005.
* J. Keith Brimacombe IPMM Award in recognition of his development of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, 2005.
* Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Jan. 29, 2007.
* Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award
* Doctor Honoris Causa, Ryerson University, Toronto , Ontario, Canada; June 10th 2008.

Work

Zadeh is noted to "quick(ly) shrug off nationalism, insisting there are much deeper issues in life", where he himself is quoted stating: "The question really isn't whether I'm American, Russian, Iranian, Azerbaijani, or anything else, I've been shaped by all these people and cultures and I feel quite comfortable among all of them."

Zadeh also notes in the same interview: "Obstinacy and tenacity. Not being afraid to get embroiled in controversy. That's very much a Turkish tradition. That's part of my character, too. I can be very stubborn. That's probably been beneficial for the development of Fuzzy Logic."

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