Ebrahim (Abe) H. Mamdani (1 June 1942Magdalena, Luis (2010
"Abe Mamdani, in Memoriam"
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'', accessed 15 February 2022 – 22 January 2010) was a mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer and

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researcher. He worked at the

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Life

Abe Mamdani was born in Tanzania in June 1942. He was educated in India and in 1966 he went to the UK. He obtained his PhD at Queen Mary College,

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. After that he joined its Electrical Engineering Department In 1975 he introduced a new method of fuzzy inference systems, which was called 'Mamdani-Type Fuzzy Inference'. Mamdani-Type Fuzzy Inference have elements like human instincts, working under the rules of

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, and has a fuzzy

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that provides an approximation to enter mathematical analysis. In July 1995, he moved from Queen Mary College to

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 the

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Computational Intelligence Society in 2003. He was also a Fellow of the IEEE, the International Fuzzy Systems Association, and of the

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and the IEE in the UK.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mamdani, Ebrahim Control theorists Fellows of the IEEE British computer scientists 1942 births 2010 deaths Artificial intelligence researchers British logicians 20th-century British mathematicians Systems scientists Academics of Imperial College London Academics of the University of London Alumni of Queen Mary University of London Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Fellows of the Institution of Electrical Engineers Tanzanian Ismailis British Ismailis