HICSS-34 Distinguished Lecturer

DR. LOTFI ZADEH
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Dr. Lotfi Zadeh is Professor in the Graduate School, Computer Science Division, Department of EECS, and is serving as the Director of BISC (Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing). Dr. Zadeh's earlier work had been centered on system theory and decision analysis, and information systems. His current research is focused on fuzzy logic, computing with words and soft computing, which is a coalition of fuzzy logic, neurocomputing, evolutionary computing, probabilistic computing and parts of machine learning. The guiding principle of soft computing is that, in general, better solutions can be obtained by employing the constituent methodologies of soft computing in combination rather than in stand-alone mode.

An alumnus of the University of Teheran, MIT, and Columbia University, Dr. Zadeh holds innumerable awards and international recognition for his seminal research and important contributions to his fields of interest. Just this year, he has received the IEEE Millennium Medal; the IEEE Pioneer Award in Fuzzy Systems; the ASPIH 2000 Lifetime Distinguished Achievement Award; and the ACIDCA 2000 Award for the paper, "From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words - From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions."

Dr. Zadeh holds honorary doctorates from a dozen universities in the United States and throughout the world, and has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ; MIT; IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose, CA; SRI International, Menlo Park, CA; and the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University. He has authored close to two hundred papers and serves on the editorial boards of over fifty journals.

Among other affiliations, Dr. Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM and AAAI, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

For more information you may visit http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/People/Faculty/Homepages/zadeh.html#scv

** The Distinguished Lecture is scheduled for Friday, January 5, 2001 at 5 p.m. **