Lotfi A. Zadeh

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Azerbaijani-American computer scientist electrical engineer person university professor

Lotfi A. Zadeh was an Azerbaijani-American computer scientist and electrical engineer best known for founding fuzzy logic and making pioneering contributions to systems theory and artificial intelligence.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Azerbaijani-American → computer scientist → electrical engineer → person → university professor →
academicDegree	B.S. in electrical engineering → M.S. in electrical engineering → Ph.D. in electrical engineering →
awardReceived	BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award → Honda Prize → IEEE Medal of Honor → IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal →
birthName	Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh →
citizenship	Iran → United States of America →
countryOfBirth	Azerbaijan SSR →
countryOfDeath	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1921-02-04 →
dateOfDeath	2017-09-06 →
educatedAt	Columbia University → Massachusetts Institute of Technology → University of Tehran →
employer	University of California, Berkeley →
familyName	Zadeh →
fieldOfWork	artificial intelligence → computer science → electrical engineering → fuzzy logic → systems theory →
givenName	Lotfi →
influenced	artificial intelligence → control systems → decision theory → pattern recognition →
knownFor	founding fuzzy logic → fuzzy sets → fuzzy systems → soft computing → systems theory →
languageSpoken	Azerbaijani → English → Persian →
memberOf	Academy of Sciences of the USSR → Finnish Academy of Technical Sciences → IEEE → National Academy of Engineering →
notableWork	Fuzzy Sets (1965) → Outline of a New Approach to the Analysis of Complex Systems and Decision Processes (1973) →
placeOfBirth	Baku →
placeOfDeath	Berkeley, California →
positionHeld	chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley → professor →
theoryDeveloped	fuzzy logic → fuzzy set theory → possibility theory →
workplace	Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science → IEEE Control Systems Award →	notableRecipient
Lotfi A. Zadeh ("Zadeh") →	familyName
University of Tehran →	hasNotableAlumni
Rufus Oldenburger Medal →	hasNotableRecipient