BCIG SPEAKER EVENT: “A New
Frontier in Computation --- Computation with Information Described In Natural
Language”
Clinical
Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
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DESCRIPTION: Plato laid the foundation of what is now known as fuzzy
logic indicating that there was a third region beyond true and false. It was Jan
Lukasiewicz who first proposed a systematic alternative to the bi- valued logic
of Aristotle and described the 3-valued logic, with the third value being
‘possible’. Lotfi Zadeh, in his theory of fuzzy logic, proposed making the
membership function operate over the range of real numbers [0,1]. He proposed
new operations for the calculus of logic and showed that fuzzy logic was a
generalization of classical logic. Lotfi Zadeh with John R. Ragazzini, developed
the z- transform method in discrete time signal processing and analysis, which
is now standard in digital signal processing, digital control, and other
discrete- time systems used In industry and research. Professor Zadeh’s latest
work includes computing with words and perceptions which he will discuss at his
BCIG lecture entitled: “A New Frontier in Computation --- Computation with
Information Described In Natural Language”
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3:00 - 4:30 pm February, 2007
Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh
Professor of Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Lotfi A. Zadeh
joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1959, and served as its chairman from 1963 to 1968. Earlier, he was
a member of the electrical engineering faculty at Columbia University. In 1956,
he was a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey. In addition, he held a number of other visiting appointments, among them
a visiting professorship in Electrical Engineering at MIT in 1962 and 1968; a
visiting scientist appointment at IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA, in
1968, 1973, and 1977; and visiting scholar appointments at the AI Center, SRI
International, in 1981, and at the Center for the Study of Language and
Information, Stanford University, in 1987-1988. Currently he is a Professor in
the Graduate School, and is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative
in Soft Computing).
Until 1965, Dr.
Zadeh's work had been centered on system theory and decision analysis. Since
then, his research interests have shifted to the theory of fuzzy sets and its
applications to artificial intelligence, linguistics, logic, decision analysis,
control theory, expert systems and neural networks. Currently, his research is
focused on fuzzy logic, soft computing, computing with words, and the newly
developed computational theory of perceptions and precisiated natural language.
An alumnus of the
University of Tehran, MIT, and Columbia University, Dr. Zadeh is a fellow of the
IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI and IFSA, 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.
In 1992, Dr. Zadeh
was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal "For seminal contributions to
information science and systems, including the conceptualization of fuzzy sets."
He became a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Computer
Sciences and Cybernetics Section) in 1992, and received the Certificate of
Commendation for AI Special Contributions Award from the International
Foundation for Artificial Intelligence. Also in 1992, he was awarded the Kampe
de Feriet Prize and became an Honorary Member of the Austrian Society of
Cybernetic Studies.
In 1993, Dr. Zadeh
received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers "For seminal contributions in system theory, decision analysis, and
theory of fuzzy sets and its applications to AI, linguistics, logic, expert
systems and neural networks." He was also awarded the Grigore Moisil Prize for
Fundamental Researches, and the Premier Best Paper Award by the Second
International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology. In 1995, Dr. Zadeh was
awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor "For pioneering development of fuzzy logic and
its many diverse applications." In 1996, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Okawa Prize
"For outstanding contribution to information science through the development of
fuzzy logic and its applications."
In 1997, Dr. Zadeh
was awarded the B. Bolzano Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic "For outstanding achievements in fuzzy mathematics." He also received
the J.P. Wohl Career Achievement Award of the IEEE Systems, Science and
Cybernetics Society. He served as a Lee Kuan Yew Distinguished Visitor,
lecturing at the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore, and as the Gulbenkian Foundation Visiting Professor at
the New University of Lisbon in Portugal. In 1998, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the
Edward Feigenbaum Medal by the International Society for Intelligent Systems,
and the Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award by the American Council on
Automatic Control. In addition, he received the Information Science Award from
the Association for Intelligent Machinery and the SOFT Scientific Contribution
Memorial Award from the Society for Fuzzy Theory in Japan. In 1999, he was
elected to membership in Berkeley Fellows and received the Certificate of Merit
from IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association). In 2000, he received the
IEEE Millennium Medal; the IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems; the ASPIH 2000
Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award; and the ACIDCA 2000 Award for the
paper, "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words—From Manipulation of
Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions." In addition, he received the Chaos
Award from the Center of Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems for
his outstanding scientific work on foundations of fuzzy logic, soft computing,
computing with words and the computational theory of perceptions. In 2001, Dr.
Zadeh received the ACM 2000 Allen Newell Award for seminal contributions to AI
through his development of fuzzy logic. In addition, he received a Special Award
from the Committee for Automation and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences
for his significant contributions to systems and information science,
development of fuzzy sets theory, fuzzy logic control, possibility theory, soft
computing, computing with words and computational theory of perceptions. In
2003, Dr. Zadeh was elected as a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of
Sciences, and received the Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE Society of Systems,
Man and Cybernetics “For pioneering contributions to the development of system
theory, fuzzy logic and soft computing.” In 2004, Dr. Zadeh was awarded Civitate
Honoris Causa by Budapest Tech (BT) Polytechnical Institution, Budapest,
Hungary. Also in 2004, he was awarded the V. Kaufmann Prize by the International
Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF). In 2005, Dr. Zadeh was
elected as a foreign member of Polish Academy of Sciences, Korea Academy of
Science & Technology and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He was also awarded the
Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the J. Keith
Brimacombe IPMM Award.
Dr. Zadeh is a
recipient of twenty-five honorary doctorates from: Paul-Sabatier University,
Toulouse, France; State University of New York, Binghamton, NY; University of
Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany; University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain; University of
Granada, Granada, Spain; Lakehead University, Canada; University of Louisville,
KY; Baku State University, Azerbaijan; the Silesian Technical University,
Gliwice, Poland; the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; the University of
Ostrava, the Czech Republic; the University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; the
University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; the University of Paris(6), Paris,
France; Jahannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria; University of Waterloo,
Canada; the University of Aurel Vlaicu, Arad, Romania; Lappeenranta University
of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland; Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran,
Japan; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China; Indian Statistical
Institute, Kolkata, India; and the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon,
Canada.
Dr. Zadeh has
single-authored over two hundred papers and serves on the editorial boards of
over fifty journals. He is a member of the Advisory Committee, Center for
Education and Research in Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence, Iasi,
Romania; Senior Advisory Board, International Institute for General Systems
Studies; the Board of Governors, International Neural Networks Society; and is
the Honorary President of the Biomedical Fuzzy Systems Association of Japan and
the Spanish Association for Fuzzy Logic and Technologies. In addition, he is a
member of the Advisory Board of the National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo; a
member of the Governing Board, Knowledge Systems Institute, Skokie, IL; and an
honorary member of the Academic Council of NAISO-IAAC.
Professor in the
Graduate School and Director, Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC),
Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, University of California,
Berkeley, CA 94720-l776; Telephone: 5l0-642-4959; Fax: 5l0-642-l7l2; E-mail: zadeh@eecs.berkeley.edu
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~zadeh/
Research
supported in part by ONR N00014-02-1-0294, BT Grant CT1080028046, Omron Grant,
Tekes Grant and the BISC Program of UC Berkeley. |
