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"Fuzzy logic" is a way to program computers so that they can mimic the imprecise way that humans make decisions. This technology allows for many innovative applications, including cars that virtually drive themselves, washing machines that pick the right wash cycles and water temperature automatically and air conditioning and heaters that adjust to the number of people in the room. This book traces the dramatic story of Lotfi Zadeh, an Iranian-American professor at Berkeley who began developing fuzzy logic more than 27 years ago, and his struggle and subsequent failure to sell his idea to the American academic and business communities.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was the first fuzzy book I read. Just picked it up randomly, wondering what fuzzy is all about. It's easy to understand, non-technical, and very enlightening. If you are curious about fuzzy logic, or want to explore what could result in a major step forward in machine "intellegence" check out this book. I only gave it an 8 (not 10) because Kosko's "Fuzzy Thinking" is the best I've read. This book is not on the same level, but still very good.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
"Imagine a technology so revolutionary that it gives computers the ability to make decisions more like human beings"
This is a book about the history of this technology, but be aware this is not an academic, scientific or engineering book.
An excellent reading if you like to know a little bit about the behind the scenes, the lives, and stories that surround the development of this fascinating technology. Fuzzy logic is a technology so great, that in my opinion, it single handed advanced the science of artificial intelligence, in a way that it wouldn't have been possible without the concepts that support Fuzzy Logic.
As Earl Cox Said: "If you are curious about fuzzy logic, buy this book. If you are working with fuzzy logic, buy this book. If you have never heard about fuzzy logic, buy this book....The Rosetta Stone of fuzzy logic".
Again,...be aware....this is not an academic, scientific or engineering book about mathematics or logics. Its just a Hot science book about the history of Fuzzy Logic.
This is a book about the history of this technology, but be aware this is not an academic, scientific or engineering book.
An excellent reading if you like to know a little bit about the behind the scenes, the lives, and stories that surround the development of this fascinating technology. Fuzzy logic is a technology so great, that in my opinion, it single handed advanced the science of artificial intelligence, in a way that it wouldn't have been possible without the concepts that support Fuzzy Logic.
As Earl Cox Said: "If you are curious about fuzzy logic, buy this book. If you are working with fuzzy logic, buy this book. If you have never heard about fuzzy logic, buy this book....The Rosetta Stone of fuzzy logic".
Again,...be aware....this is not an academic, scientific or engineering book about mathematics or logics. Its just a Hot science book about the history of Fuzzy Logic.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Great intro to Fuzzy Logic
10 Jun 1998
Format:Paperback
This was the first fuzzy book I read. Just picked it up randomly, wondering what fuzzy is all about. It's easy to understand, non-technical, and very enlightening. If you are curious about fuzzy logic, or want to explore what could result in a major step forward in machine "intellegence" check out this book. I only gave it an 8 (not 10) because Kosko's "Fuzzy Thinking" is the best I've read. This book is not on the same level, but still very good.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.5 stars-Overall,an above average history of fuzzy logic with some rough spots
14 Jun 2008
Format:Paperback
This book is an above average history of the conceptualization ,development,and application of fuzzy logic.Fuzzy logic essentially replaces the point estimates of the mathematical laws of probability(addition and multiplication rules for disjunction and conjunction,respectively)with interval estimates using linear programming techniques.The two main protaganists are L. Zadeh and B. Kosko.They certainly should be recognized for independently developing their own particular versions and approaches to interval estimates but they are NOT the originators.The authors of the book overlok that it was George Boole who was the first to come up with interval estimates for probabilities,including non rational numbers, in chapters 16-21 of his 1854 The Laws of Thought.J M Keynes then used modified versions of a number of these problems of Boole's to present a method of approximation using an interval estimate approach in his A Treatise on Probability in chapters 15 and 17.Keynes rejected the purely mathematical laws of probability as a special case and emphasized the notion of " non numerical " probabilities or indeterminate or non comparable probabilities,by which he meant interval estimates.Theodore Hailperin,in 1965 and in full length books in 1976,1986,and 1996,demonstrated that all of the Boole problems could be solved as linear programming problems.Daniel Ellsberg's "ambiguous" probabilities(intervals)are also overlooked in this book.
The authors mix subjectivist Bayesians(Ramsey,De Finetti,and Savage)with Objectivist Bayesians(Jeffreys,Jaynes)without apparently realizing that there are major differences between them.The claim that Boole reduced thinking to "classical logic " and "well bounded symbols " while ignoring " vagueness " on p.71 is false as is the claim that Boole was a supporter of the purely mathematical application of the laws of probability who rejected subjectivism at the top of p.180.He was not.
This is a entertaining book.It is worth buying even though the authors have overlooked the actual originators of the interval estimate approach to decision making based on indeterminate probabilities-George Boole,J M Keynes,Theodore Hailperin,and Daniel Ellsberg.
The authors mix subjectivist Bayesians(Ramsey,De Finetti,and Savage)with Objectivist Bayesians(Jeffreys,Jaynes)without apparently realizing that there are major differences between them.The claim that Boole reduced thinking to "classical logic " and "well bounded symbols " while ignoring " vagueness " on p.71 is false as is the claim that Boole was a supporter of the purely mathematical application of the laws of probability who rejected subjectivism at the top of p.180.He was not.
This is a entertaining book.It is worth buying even though the authors have overlooked the actual originators of the interval estimate approach to decision making based on indeterminate probabilities-George Boole,J M Keynes,Theodore Hailperin,and Daniel Ellsberg.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Excellent
10 Sep 2003
Format:Paperback
McNeill does a great job in picturing the initial introduction of Fuzzy Sets, rejection by US companies, and the developments of Japanese companies. This book contains the best historical recolection on Fuzzy Logic.
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