Lotfi A. Zadeh

Professor Emeritus, Professor in the Graduate School

Research Areas

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
• soft computing, knowledge-based systems

Research Centers

• Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)
• Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)

Teaching Schedule (Spring 2008)

• CS 298-11. Search Engines & Soft Computing, Tu 4:00-5:30P, 606 Soda

Biography

An alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT, and Columbia University, Dr. Zadeh is a fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM and AAAI, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He held NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships in 1956-57 and 1962-63, and was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 1968. Dr. Zadeh was the recipient of the IEEE Education Medal in 1973 and a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. In 1989, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation, and in 1991 received the Berkeley Citation, University of California.

He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley, in 1959, and served as its chairman from 1963 to 1968. Currently he is a Professor in the Graduate School, and is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing).

Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. He is a recipient of the IEEE Education Medal, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, the IEEE Medal of Honor, the ASME Rufus Oldenburger Medal, the B. Bolzano Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Kampe de Feriet Medal, the AACC Richard E. Bellman Central Heritage Award, the Grigore Moisil Prize, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the AIM Information Science Award, the IEEE-SMC J. P. Wohl Career Acheivement Award, the SOFT Scietific Contribution Memorial Award of the Japan Society for Fuzzy Theory, the IEEE Millennium Medal, the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award, and other awards and honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of over fifty journals.

Selected Publications

• J. Lawry, "Fuzzy label semantics for data mining," in Forging the New Frontiers: Fuzzy Pioneers II, L. A. Zadeh, Ed., Springer, 2007.
• L. A. Zadeh, Fuzzy Sets, Fuzzy Logic, and Fuzzy Systems: Selected Papers of Lotfi A. Zadeh, G. J. Klir and B. Yuan, Eds., Advances in Fuzzy Systems -- Applications and Theory, Vol. 6, River Edge, NJ: World Scientific, 1996.
• L. A. Zadeh, "Fuzzy logic = computing with words," IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 103-111, May 1996.
• L. A. Zadeh, "Fuzzy logic, neural networks and soft computing," Communications of the ACM, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 77-84, March 1994.
• L. A. Zadeh, "Fuzzy logic and the calculus of fuzzy if-then rules," in Proc. 22nd Intl. Symp. on Multiple-Valued Logic, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1992, pp. 480-480.
• L. A. Zadeh, "A computational approach to fuzzy quantifiers in natural languages," Computers & Mathematics with Applications: Special Issue on Computational Linguistics, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 149-184, Jan. 1983.
• R. E. Bellman and L. A. Zadeh, "Local and fuzzy logics," in Modern Uses of Multiple-Valued Logic, J. M. Dunn and G. Epstein, Eds., Dordrecht, The Netherlands: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1977, pp. 103-165.
• L. A. Zadeh, "A fuzzy-algorithmic approach to the definition of complex or imprecise concepts," Intl. J. Man-Machine Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 249-291, May 1976.
• L. A. Zadeh, "The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning - III," Information Sciences, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 43-80, Dec. 1975.
• L. A. Zadeh, "The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning - II," Information Sciences, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 301-357, Oct. 1975.
• L. A. Zadeh, "The concept of a linguistic variable and its application to approximate reasoning - I," Information Sciences, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 199-249, July 1975.
• R. E. Bellman and L. A. Zadeh, "Decision making in a fuzzy environment," Management Science, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. B141-B164, Dec. 1970.
• L. A. Zadeh, "Fuzzy sets," Information and Control, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 338-353, June 1965.
• L. A. Zadeh and C. A. Desoer, Linear System Theory: The State Space Approach, W. Linvill, L. A. Zadeh, and G. Dantzia, Eds., McGraw-Hill Series in System Science, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1963.
• J. R. Ragazzini and L. A. Zadeh, "The analysis of sampled-data systems," Trans. American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Part II (Applications and Industry), vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 225-234, Nov. 1952.