The Fourth IASTED International Conference on
Computational Intelligence
~CI 2009~
August 17 – 19, 2009
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
INVITED SPEAKER
Extended Fuzzy Logic, Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence
Biography of the Invited Speaker
Lotfi A. Zadeh is a Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing). Since the publication of his first paper on fuzzy sets in 1965, his research has been focused on fuzzy logic and its applications.
Lotfi Zadeh has received many awards, including the IEEE Medal of Honor, the ACM Allen Newell Award, the Honda Prize, the Okawa Prize, the Nicolaus Copernicus Medal of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame and the Benjamin Franklin Medal. He is a recipient of twenty-five honorary doctorates, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. In addition, he is a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Korean Academy of Science & Technology and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
