Jorge Francisco Lazo Snchez 2MV7 The History of Fuzzy Logic Fuzzy logic was introduced in 1965 by Professor

Lotfi Zadeh of UC-Berkeley in his paper "Fuzzy Sets", it provides a representation scheme and a calculus for dealing with vague or uncertain concepts, for the facile manipulation of such terms as "large," "warm," and "fast," which can simultaneously be seen to belong partially to two or more different, contradictory sets of values. However the idea of fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic were not accepted well within academic circles because some of the underlying mathematics had not yet been explored. The applications of fuzzy logic were slow to develop because of this, except in the United States. The situation in Japan was quite different. In Japan specifically fuzzy logic was fully accepted and implemented in products simply because fuzzy logic worked, regardless of whether mathematicians agreed or not. The success of many fuzzy logic based products in Japan in the early 80s led to a revival in fuzzy logic in the US in the late 80s. Since that time America has been playing catch up with the east in the area of fuzzy logic. Professor Terano, inspired by Zadeh's work, introduced the idea to the Japanese research community in about 1972. Perhaps because of a Japanese cultural view of the vagueness of human nature (all concepts belonging partially to contradictory sets), there was almost immediate enthusiasm for the idea. This led to active research and a host of commercial applications, almost entirely in the area of physical systems control. Terano and his colleagues nowadays view fuzzy control as but the first way station on the road to human-friendly systems. The evolution is fuzzy control, to fuzzy expert systems, to intelligent robots, to integrated AI systems. The 1992 LIFE research plan shows work in two main areas: communication and machine intelligence. Under communication, LIFE is conducting research in fuzzy computing (including natural language and linguistic modeling applications) and intelligent interfaces (to both humans and robots).