Ebrahim Mamdani

Ebrahim Mamdani

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Male
Places:
United Kingdom
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Computer scientistArtificial intelligence researcher
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TechnologyScience
Birth:
1 June 1942(Tanzania, Tanzania)
Death:
22 January 2010
Star sign:
Gemini
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Introduction

Ebrahim (Abe) H. Mamdani (June 1, 1942 – January 22, 2010) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer and artificial intelligence researcher. He worked at the Imperial College London.

Life

Abe Mamdani was born in Tanzania in June 1942. He was educated in India and in 1966 he went to UK.

He obtained his PhD at Queen Mary College, University of London. After that he joined its Electrical Engineering Department

In 1975 heintroduceda new method offuzzyinferencesystems, which was calledMamdani-Type Fuzzy Inference. Mamdani-Type Fuzzy Inferencehavecharacterslikehumaninstincts,workingundertherulesof linguisticsandhasafuzzyalgorithmthatprovidesanapproximationtoentermathematical analysis.

In July 1995, he moved from Queen Mary College to Imperial College London.

Awards and honors

Abe Mamdani was an Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London. He received the "European Fuzzy Pioneer Award" from the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) in 1999, and the "Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award" from Computational Intelligence Society of the IEEE in 2003. He was also a Fellow of IEEE, IFSA, and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the IEE in the UK.