[IEEE ICCI*CC'17:] Dr. Lotfi A. Zadeh passed away

Dear Colleague,

I am deeply pathetic to share the sad news that Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh has passed away on Sept. 6, 2017 in age of 97.

Prof. Zadeh has been our Honorary Chair for the IEEE ICCI*CC Series since 2002. His vision has guided us to build the Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing Community and related research in the last 16 years.

Prof. Zadeh was a giant scientist of the world. His seminal work in logic, fuzzy mathematics, and soft computing, etc., have and will influence many generations of researchers and students. We will remember his pioneer contributions to knowledge forever.

As Stuart Rubin wrote: "I would like to share some words, which I believe he would have shared with you, if I may:


'Though I am bodily gone, I will continue on in your hearts and sole - more fuzzy now than ever so long as you remember me and my work.'

Rest in peace, dear Lotfi.


With our best regards,

Yingxu Wang

Chair, The Steering Committee of IEEE ICCI*CC Conference Series

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Yingxu Wang, PhD, FBCS, FICIC, FWIF, SMIEEE, SMACM, PEng
Professor of Computational Intelligence, Software Science, Brain Science, & Denotational Mathematics
Visiting Professor: Stanford Univ. (2008|16), MIT (2012), UC Berkeley (2008),  Oxford Univ. (1995)
President, International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC, http://www.ucalgary.ca/icic/)
Director, Lab for Computational Intelligence and Cognitive Systems
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Schulich School of Engineering (SSE) and Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI)
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive, NW
Calgary, AB, Canada T2N 1N4
Tel: (403) 220-6141   Fax: (403) 282-6855
http://schulich.ucalgary.ca/profiles/yingxu-wang
http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yingxu_Wang
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Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI)
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Software Science and Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI)
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on System, Man, and Cybernetics- Systems
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Advanced Mathematics and Applications (JAMA)
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Mathematical and Computational Methods (JMCM)
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