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CREATE Seminar - Jerry Mendel 10/12/11 - Perceptual Computing: One Implementation of Zadeh's "Computing With Words" Paradigm

We are pleased to invite you to attend CREATE’s monthly seminar!

When: 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12th

Location: RTH-306 (3710 McClintock Ave. RTH-306, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2902)

Title: Perceptual Computing: One Implementation of Zadeh’s “Computing With Words” Paradigm

Abstract: In 1996 Lotfi Zadeh, who is the father of fuzzy logic, published a paper with the very provocative title “Fuzzy Logic = Computing With Words.” This title might lead one to incorrectly believe that, since fuzzy logic is a very well developed body of mathematics (with lots of real-world application), it is straightforward to implement his paradigm of Computing with Words. This speaker and his students have been working on one class of applications for Computing with Words for more than ten years, namely assisting people in making subjective judgments. The result is the Perceptual Computer and its associated methodology—Perceptual Computing. This talk describes the methodology of perceptual computing, its many challenges, and how those challenges have been overcome to-date.

Presenter: Jerry M. Mendel received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY. Currently he is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Systems Architecting Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he has been since 1974. He has published over 500 technical papers and is author and/or editor of nine books, including Uncertain Rule-based Fuzzy Logic Systems: Introduction and New Directions (Prentice-Hall, 2001) and Perceptual Computing: Aiding People in Making Subjective Judgments (Wiley & IEEE Press, 2010). His present research interests include: type-2 fuzzy logic systems and their applications to a wide range of problems, including smart oil field technology and computing with words. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society, and a Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association. He was President of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 1986. He is a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and was Chairman of its Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee, and was Chairman of the Computing With Words Task Force of that TC. Among his awards are the 1983 Best Transactions Paper Award of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the 1992 Signal Processing Society Paper Award, the 2002 Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award, a 1984 IEEE Centennial Medal, an IEEE Third Millenium Medal, and a Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award (2008) from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

Please RSVP no later than Friday, October 7th, 2011 to Erin Calicchio calicchi@usc.edu.

Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 306

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Erin Calicchio