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Event devoted to 90 year anniversary of Azerbaijani science Lotfi Zadeh held in Baku - PHOTO

Event devoted to 90 year anniversary of Azerbaijani science Lotfi Zadeh held in Baku - <font color=red>PHOTO</font>

11 February 2011 11:39 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Nijat Mustafayev â€“ APA-Economics. Today, an event devoted to the 90 year anniversary of Azerbaijani science Lotfi Zadeh was held in Baku, by the organization of Azerbaijani Ministry of communication and Information Technologies.

According to APA-Economics, Minister of Communication and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov, Education Minister Misir Mardanov, president of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Mahmud Karimov and other academic and sciences have spoken about the Lotfi Zadehâ€™s life and informed about his fuzzy logic theory.

Note that, Lotfi Zadeh was born on February 4, 1921, in Baku. In 1942, he graduated from the University of Tehran with a degree in electrical engineering (Fanni), and moved to the United States in 1944. He received an MS degree in electrical engineering from MIT in 1946, and a PhD in electrical engineering from Columbia University in 1949. Zadeh taught for ten years at Columbia University, was promoted to Full Professor in 1957, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 1959. He published his seminal work on fuzzy sets in 1965, in which he detailed the mathematics of fuzzy set theory. In 1973 he proposed his theory of fuzzy logic.