Simple logic
The father of a theory that is now the life of many consumer goods, Lothi Zadeh shows no signs of slowing down at 85. Over to Mathures Paul Lotfi Zadeh was born before his time. Whenever he’d come up with a theory, the world wouldn’t readily accept it. But the scientist’s Fuzzy Logic theory has stood the test of time and is now the life of many electronic consumer goods. He isn’t your comic book image of the driven scientist with the unkept hair and manic eyes. But he is 85 and shows no signs of slowing down. Born in 1921 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Zadeh is a mathematician, computer scientist and professor at the University of California at Berkeley. He grew up in Iran, studied at Alborz High School and Tehran University and moved to the USA in the mid-1940s. Since the 1950s he’s been with Berkeley. “Russia has gone down. In America people now speak of China and India. I get my share of news from Radio Liberty. It broadcasts serious news and no propaganda. I wish there was a channel like thi...