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Computing with Words

Speaker: Dr. LoftiZadeh, Professor and Director of the Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)

Abstract: Computing with Words (CW or CWW) is a system of computation which offers an important capability that traditional systems of computation do not have—a capability to compute with information described in a natural language. In the main, CW is concerned with solution of problems which are stated in a natural language. The importance of CW derives from the fact that much of human knowledge is perception-based and is described in a natural language.

CW has important applications to decision analysis, question-answering systems, system modeling, specification and optimization, and mechanization of natural language understanding. Basically, CW opens the door to a wide-ranging enlargement of the role of natural languages in scientific theories.


Biography: LOTFI A. ZADEH is an alumnus of the University of Tehran, MIT and Columbia University. His earlier work was concerned in the main with systems analysis, 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. Lotfi Zadeh is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAAS, ACM, AAAI, and IFSA. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Foreign Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, Korean Academy of Science & Technology, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the International Academy of Systems Studies, Moscow and the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. He is a recipient of many medals and awards as well as twenty –five honorary doctorates. He has published extensively on a wide variety of subjects relating to the conception, design and analysis of information/intelligent systems, and is serving on the editorial boards of over seventy journals.
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Host: The Center for Interactive Smart Oilfield Technologies (CiSoft.usc.edu) and the Center for Geothermal Studies (CGS.usc.edu) jointly host

Location: Seeley Wintersmith Mudd Memorial Hall (of Philosophy) (MHP) - Auditorium

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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