Then in the early 20th century, Jan Lukasiewicz proposed a three-valued logic (true, possible, false), which never gained wide acceptance. In 1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh of the University of California at ...

OK, my American dreamers. I have read the letters proclaiming that it only takes hard work and total effort to be part of the 1 percent. I can do basic math and let’s see, if the lazy 99 percent just ...

Identifying cancer cells in a medical image and altering the trajectory of airplanes at take-off and landing to reduce noise pollution are just two of the goals of new research projects based on the ...

My degree is in control engineering. When I was at university (way back in the mists of time), the most sophisticated control techniques we had were bang-bang control, sequence control, and ...

Google is honoring Lotfi Zadeh, the Azerbaijani computer scientist who came up with the idea of “fuzzy logic,” with a homepage Doodle. Lotfi Aliaskerzadeh — later changed to “Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh” — ...

Those who were in America when George W. Bush described Al Gore’s economic figures as “fuzzy math,” will remember how whilst he kept repeating the phrase, he never once discussed Gore’s economic ...