page_title: Lotfi A. Zadeh
section_title: Awards and honors
hierarchical_section_title: Lotfi A. Zadeh / Awards and honors
caption_attribution_description: Azərbaycanca: Lütfi Zadənin məzarı
context_page_description: Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.
  Zadeh was best known for proposing fuzzy mathematics consisting of these fuzzy-related concepts: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, fuzzy algorithms, fuzzy semantics, fuzzy languages, fuzzy control, fuzzy systems, fuzzy probabilities, fuzzy events, and fuzzy information.
  Zadeh was a founding member of the Eurasian Academy.
context_section_description: Zadeh was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the International Fuzzy Systems Association, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was also a member of the Academies of Science of Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Finland, Korea and Poland, and of the International Academy of Systems Studies in Moscow. He received 24 honorary doctorates.
  Awards received by Zadeh include, among many others:
  IEEE Education Medal; 1973
  Eringen Medal; 1976
  IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, for "seminal contributions to information science and systems, including the conceptualization of fuzzy sets"; 1992
  American Society of Mechanical Engineers Rufus Oldenburger Medal; 1993.
  Honorary Professorship from the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy; 1993
  IEEE Medal of Honor, for "pioneering development of fuzzy logic and its many diverse applications"; 1995
  American Automatic Control Council's Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award; 1998.
  ACM Allen Newell Award; 2001
  Outstanding Contribution Award, Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), Halifax, Canada, 2003.
  Wall of Fame, Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum (HNF), Paderborn, Germany, 2004.
  V. Kaufmann Prize and Gold Medal, International Association for Fuzzy-Set Management and Economy (SIGEF), Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 15, 2004.
  J. Keith Brimacombe IPMM Award in recognition of his development of fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, 2005.
  Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering from The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, for inventing and developing the field of "fuzzy logic"; 2009
  Induction into the IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame, 2011, "for his work on soft computing, fuzzy logic, and neural-net theory".
  BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the category of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Spain, 2012.
  Honorary Doctor of the Obuda University (Budapest, Hungary)
  Golden Goose Award, for Fuzzy Logic; 2017
caption: Grave of Lotfi A. Zadeh in Baku.
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