Editing Lotfi A. Zadeh (section)

{{Short description|Azerbaijani scientist (1921–2017)}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| image             = Lotfi Zadeh Berkeley c.jpg
| caption           = Zadeh in 2016
| birth_name        = Lotfi Aliasgerzadeh
| birth_date        = {{birth date|1921|2|4|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|2017|9|6|1921|2|4|df=yes}}<ref name=ucbnews /><ref name=ap>{{cite news | author = <!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> | date = 2017-09-12 | title = Lotfi Zadeh dead: Computing revolutionary and founder of fuzzy logic dies aged 96 | url = https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lotfi-zadeh-dead-computing-revolutionary-founder-fuzzy-logic-dies-aged-96-1638636 | url-status = live | work = [[International Business Times]] | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211130075114/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lotfi-zadeh-dead-computing-revolutionary-founder-fuzzy-logic-dies-aged-96-1638636 | archive-date = 2021-11-30 | access-date = 2021-12-02 | quote = Lotfali Rahim Oglu Asgarzadeh, better known as Lotfi A. Zadeh, was an Iranian mathematician, artificial intelligence researcher and professor of computer science at the University of California. He died on 6 September at 7.30 am it was confirmed by close friend.}}</ref>
| death_place       = [[Berkeley, California]], US<ref name=nytobit>{{cite news | last1 = Metz | first1 = Cade | date = 2017-09-11 | title = Lotfi Zadeh, Father of Mathematical 'Fuzzy Logic,' Dies at 96 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html | url-status = live | url-access = subscription | work = [[The New York Times]] | language = en-us | archive-url =  https://web.archive.org/web/20211201222155/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html | archive-date = 2021-12-01 | access-date = 2021-12-02 | issn = 0362-4331 | eissn = 1553-8095 | oclc = 1645522 | quote = Lotfi Zadeh, the computer scientist and electrical engineer whose theories of "fuzzy logic" rippled across academia and industry, influencing everything from linguistics, economics and medicine to air-conditioners, vacuum cleaners and rice cookers, died on Wednesday at his home in Berkeley, Calif. He was 96.}}</ref>
| field             = {{ublist | [[Artificial intelligence]] | [[Computer science]] | [[Electrical engineering]] | [[Mathematics]]}}
| work_institution  = [[University of California, Berkeley]]
| alma_mater        = {{ublist | [[University of Tehran]] | [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] | [[Columbia University]]}}
| doctoral_advisor  = [[John R. Ragazzini]]
| doctoral_students = {{ublist | [[Joseph Goguen]]  | [[John Yen]]}}
| thesis_title      = Frequency analysis of variable networks
| thesis_year       = 1949
| thesis_url        = http://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/1502694
| known_for         = Founder of [[fuzzy mathematics]], <br /> [[fuzzy set]] theory, and [[fuzzy logic]], Z numbers, [[Z-transform]]
| awards            = [[Eringen Medal]] {{small|(1976)}}<br />[[IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal|IEEE Hamming Medal]] {{small|(1992)}}<ref name=ucbnews /><br />[[Rufus Oldenburger Medal]] <small>(1993)</small><br />[[IEEE Medal of Honor]] {{small|(1995)}}<ref name=ucbnews /><br />2012 [[BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards|BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award]]<br /> [[Honorary Doctorate]] of [[Tehran University]] (2016)<ref name="UT"/> <br /> [[Association for Computing Machinery#Fellows|ACM Fellow]] <br /> [[IEEE Fellow]] <br /> [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences|AAAS]] Fellow <br /> [[Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence|AAAI]] Fellow<br /> Member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]]<br /> Founding Member of Eurasian Academy
| spouse            = Fay Zadeh
| children          = 2, including [[Norman Zada]]
| footnotes         = 
}}

'''Lotfi Aliasger Zadeh'''<ref name="NAE"/> ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|ɑː|d|eɪ}}; {{langx|az|Lütfi Rəhim oğlu Ələsgərzadə}};<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://diaspora.gov.az/index.php?options=content&id=619 |title=Diasporla İş üzrə Dövlət Komitəsi<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2014-06-07 |archive-date=2014-07-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140704184103/http://diaspora.gov.az/index.php?options=content&id=619 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{langx|fa|لطفی علی‌عسکرزاده}};<ref name="UT">{{cite web|title=Granting honorary doctorate from Tehran University to professor Lotfizadeh|url=http://ut.ac.ir/fa/news/3017/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B7%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%DB%8C-%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87|website=Official website of [[University of Tehran]] (UT)|access-date=1 July 2017|location=Tehran, Iran|language=fa|date=March 9, 2016|archive-date=16 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116022537/https://ut.ac.ir/fa/news/3017/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B7%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA%D8%AE%D8%A7%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D9%BE%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1-%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%81%DB%8C-%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87|url-status=live}}</ref> 4 February 1921 – 6 September 2017)<ref name=ucbnews /><ref name=ap /> was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor<ref name=cv /> of [[computer science]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. <!-- THE QUESTION OF THE SUBJECT'S ETHNICITY AND NATIONALITY IS COMPLEX, AND IS COVERED IN THE BODY OF THE ARTICLE. PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO PUT AN OVER-SIMPLIFIED VERSION INTO THE LEDE SECTION.  THANK YOU. -->
Zadeh is best known for proposing [[fuzzy mathematics]], consisting of several ''fuzzy''-related concepts: [[fuzzy set]]s,<ref name="FuzzySets1965" /> [[fuzzy logic]],<ref name="FuzzyLogicEqualIEEE1996" /> fuzzy algorithms,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zadeh |first1=L.A. |author-link1=Lotfi A. Zadeh |author-mask=1 |date=1968-02-01 |title=Fuzzy algorithms |journal=[[Information and Computation|Information and Control]] |language=en |publisher=[[Academic Press]] |publication-place=San Diego, California |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=94–102 |doi=10.1016/S0019-9958(68)90211-8 |doi-access=free |issn=0019-9958 |lccn=59047612 |oclc=871736339}}</ref> fuzzy semantics,<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1016/S0020-0255(71)80004-X| title=Quantitative fuzzy semantics| journal=Information Sciences| volume = 3| issue = 2| pages = 159–176| year=1971| last1=Zadeh |first1=L.A.| author-link1=Lotfi A. Zadeh |author-mask=1}}</ref> fuzzy languages,<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1016/0020-0255(69)90025-5| title=Note on fuzzy languages| journal=Information Sciences| volume=1| issue=4| pages=421–434| year=1969| last1=Lee| first1=E. T. |last2=Zadeh |first2=L. A. |author-link1=Lotfi A. Zadeh |author2-mask=1}}</ref> [[Fuzzy control system|fuzzy control]],<ref>{{Cite journal |doi=10.1115/1.3426540| title=A Rationale for Fuzzy Control| journal=Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control| volume=94| page=3| year=1972| last1=Zadeh |first1=L. A.| author-link1=Lotfi A. Zadeh |author-mask=1}}</ref> [[fuzzy systems]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Toward a theory of fuzzy systems |last1=Zadeh |first1=L. |author-link1=Lotfi A. Zadeh |author-mask=1 |date=1969 |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19690027655.pdf |access-date=18 October 2014 |archive-date=22 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141022155253/http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19690027655.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> fuzzy probabilities,<ref name="doi10.1016/0306-45738490067-0">{{Cite journal |doi=10.1016/0306-4573(84)90067-0| title=Fuzzy probabilities| journal=Information Processing & Management| volume=20| issue=3| pages=363–372| year=1984| last1=Zadeh| first1=L. A.| author-link1=Lotfi A. Zadeh| author-mask=1}}</ref> fuzzy events,<ref name="doi10.1016/0306-45738490067-0"/> and fuzzy information.<ref>{{Cite journal| doi=10.1016/S0165-0114(97)00077-8| title=Toward a theory of fuzzy information granulation and its centrality in human reasoning and fuzzy logic| journal=Fuzzy Sets and Systems| volume=90| issue=2| pages=111–127| year=1997| last1=Zadeh| first1=L. A.| author-link1=Lotfi A. Zadeh| author-mask=1}}</ref>
Zadeh was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy.<ref name=ucbnews /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eurasia-academy.org/?page_id=54%2F |title=Eurasian Academy Official Site |access-date=2021-05-12 |archive-date=2020-06-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621220757/http://eurasia-academy.org/?page_id=54%2F |url-status=live }}</ref>