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Thursday, December 09, 2004
Iran's Greatest Contemporary Mathematician Backs the Appeal for Referendum
December 09, 2004
Iran va Jahan
Potkin Azarmehr
Iran’s greatest contemporary mathematician, Professor Lotfi Zadeh, backs the appeal for a referendum to change Iran’s constitution. Professor Lotfi Zadeh, who joined the University of California, Berkeley, in 1959 is the father of Fuzzy Logic and its application to artificial intelligence, linguistics, logic, decision analysis, control theory, expert systems and neural networks.
An alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT, and Columbia University, Dr. Zadeh is a fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He held NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellowships in 1956-57 and 1962-63, and was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow in 1968. Dr. Zadeh was the recipient of the IEEE Education Medal in 1973 and a recipient of the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. In 1989, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Honda Prize by the Honda Foundation, and in 1991 received the Berkeley Citation, University of California.
In 1992, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal "For seminal contribu tions to information science and systems, including the conceptualization of fuzzy sets." He became a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Computer Sciences and Cybernetics Section) in 1992 and received the Certificate of Commendation for AI Special Contributions Award from the International Foundation for Artificial Intelligence. Also in 1992, he was awarded the Kampe de Feriet Prize and became an Honorary Member of the Austrian Society of Cybernetic Studies.
In 1993, Dr. Zadeh received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers "For seminal contributions in system theory, decision analysis, and theory of fuzzy sets and its applications to AI, linguistics, logic, expert systems and neural networks." He was also awarded the Grigore Moisil Prize for Fundamental Researches, and the Premier Best Paper Award by the Second International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and Technology. In 1995, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the IEEE Medal of Honor "For pioneering development of fuzzy logic and its many diverse applications." In 1996, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the Okawa Prize "For outstanding contribution to information science through the development of fuzzy logic and its applications."
In 1997, Dr. Zadeh was awarded the B. Bolzano Medal by the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic "For outstanding achievements in fuzzy mathematics." He also received the J.P. Wohl Career Achievement Award of the IEEE Systems, Science and Cybernetics Society.
The support for the appeal by Professor Zadeh, who is held with the highest esteem amongst educated Iranians, will be regarded as a huge boost to the organisers of the appeal. All Iranians hope that one day a peaceful and democratic Iran, where freedom of thought prevails, will enable all of the nation’s greatest minds to serve our country without fear of persecution by the enemies of knowledge and clerics from the dark ages.
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