In 1965, Lotfi A. Zadeh of the University of California at Berkeley published “Fuzzy Sets,” which laid out the mathematics of fuzzy set theory and, by extension, fuzzy logic. Zadeh had observed that ...

Innovative design continues to exploit the power of neural and related techniques. Always more popular with Japanese and Pacific Rim consumer-product designers, fuzzy logic did not catch on to the ...

Amid all the dire warnings that machines run by artificial intelligence (AI) will one day take over from humans we need to think more about how we program them in the first place. The technology may ...

One night in July, 1964, the logician Lotfi Zadeh found himself alone in his parents’ New York apartment, his dinner plans cancelled. At the time, Zadeh later wrote, he was doing “a lot of thinking ...