Lotfi A. Zadeh - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

Zadeh is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Academy of Arts and Science, 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 is 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 has received 24 honorary doctorates.

Awards received by Zadeh include, among many others:

• IEEE Education Medal; 1973
• 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 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 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".