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Lotfi A. Zadeh

It is hard to fit the binary mind of a computer's artificial intelligence, where something is either "on" or "off," "white" or "black," "hot" or "cold," around the normal ambiguity encountered in everyday life. For example, we might all agree that it's officially "cold" outside when it gets to 40 degrees—but that doesn't mean it was "hot" at 42 degrees. Lotfi Zadeh has been called the "father of fuzzy logic" for determining a mathematical way to analyze data that doesn't neatly fit into such black/white categories. Fuzzy logic allows room for a computer to label something "somewhat cold" or "very cold"— a seemingly self-evident step considering that this is the way our brain works as well, but one that broke through the previously rigid processes of artificial intelligence. Doors opened for adaptive systems that would have been unthinkable— from email spam filters to nuclear power plant control to driver-less subway trains.

Zadeh was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and grew up in Iran. He earned his B.S.E.E. from the University of Tehran in 1942, and his M.S.E.E.

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Remembering Lotfi Zadeh

Lotfi Zadeh — professor emeritus, world-renowned computer scientist and leader of the college community — died on September 6, 2017 at the age of 96.

Lotfi A. Zadeh was born in 1921 in Baku, Azerbaijan. He studied at Alborz College, an American Presbyterian Missionary School in Tehran, Iran, and later at the University of Tehran, from which he received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1942.

Zadeh traveled to the United States in 1944 to pursue graduate studies and received the S.M. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1946. Subsequently, he joined the faculty of Columbia University as an instructor in electrical engineering, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in 1949. He was appointed as assistant professor in 1950 and then promoted to full professor in 1957.

At Columbia University, Zadeh taught courses in electromagnetic theory, circuit analysis, system theory, information theory and sequential machines. His doctoral dissertation initiated a new direction in frequency analysis of time-varying networks

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Lotfi A. Zadeh

Birthdate: 1921/02/04
Birthplace: Baku, Azerbaijan
Death date: 2017/09/06
Associated organizations: MIT, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley
Fields of study: Control systems, Computing
Awards: IEEE Medal of Honor, IEEE Education Medal, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, IEEE Centennial Medal

Biography

Lotfi A. Zadeh (IRE Student member 1945, Associate, 1947, Member 1950, Senior Member 1956, and Fellow 1958) was born on 4 February 1921 in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was then known as Baku, Russia, a part of the Soviet Union. His father was a journalist, and his mother was a medical doctor.

After the family moved across the Soviet border to Iran, Zadeh studied at Alborz College, an American Presbyterian Missionary School in Teheran, and later at the University of Teheran, from which he received the B.S. E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1942.

During World War II, he sold goods to the American Army, earning enough money to continue his education in the United States. He traveled to the United States in 1944 and entered the Massach