FUZZY LOGIC

HAVE YOU EVER COME ACROSS THE TERM (FUZZY) OR (FUZZY LOGIC) OR EVER WONDER WHO INTRODUCE THIS TERM  INITIALLY.
Fuzzy logic has rapidly become one of the most successful of today's technologies for developing sophisticated control systems. The reason for which is very simple. Fuzzy logic addresses such applications perfectly as it resembles human decision making with an ability to generate precise solutions from certain or approximate information. It fills an important gap in engineering design methods left vacant by purely mathematical approaches (e.g. linear control design), and purely logic-based approaches (e.g. expert systems) in system design.fuzzy logic was discovered. Lotfi A. Zadeh, a professor of UC Berkeley in California, soon to be known as the founder of fuzzy logic observed that conventional computer logic was incapable of manipulating data representing subjective or vague human ideas such as "an atractive person" or "pretty hot". Fuzzy logic, hence was designed to allow computers to determine the distinctions among data with shades of gray, similar to the process of human reasoning. In 1965, Zadeh published his seminal work "Fuzzy Sets" which described the mathematics of fuzzy set theory, and by extension fuzzy logic. This theory proposed making the membership function (or the values False and True) operate over the range of real numbers [0.0, 1.0]. Fuzzy logic was now introduced to the world.
Although, the technology was introduced in the United States, the scientist and researchers there, ignored it mainly because of its unconventional name. They refused to take something which sounded so child-like seriously. Some mathematicians argued that fuzzy logic was merely probability in disguise. Only stubborn scientists or ones who worked in discrete continued researching it.
While the US and certain parts of Europe ignored it, fuzzy logic was excepted with open arms in Japan, China and most Oriental countries. It may be suprising to some that the world's largest number of fuzzy researchers are in China with over 10,000 scientists. Japan, though currently positioned at the leading edge of fuzzy studies falls second in manpower, followed by Europe and the USA. Hence, it can be said that the popularity of fuzzy logic in the Orient reflects the fact that Oriental thinking more easily accepts the concept of "fuzziness". And because of this, the US, by some estimates, trail Japan by at least ten years in this forefront of modern technology.