Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy logic is the next wave in technology. Japanese electronics giants have, in the last ten years, already staked their commercial future on the benefits of fuzzy production; only recently have European and US companies begun to catch up. Fuzzy logic sanctifies vagueness. It prescribes a new way of thinking about machines, about science, ambiguity, confusion and contradiction.

Computers & Technology

KOSKO, BART

Computer Science

Hyperion Books

Written by one the top figure in this rapidly emerging field, this book introduces an important new framework for fuzzy systems and applies it to several engineering applications. Broad in scope, this is a must-read for anyone doing research or applications. Applications reach far beyond the usual fuzzy applications to control. Each chapter starting with a tutorial overview, presents new research results, and ends with detailed problems. Specific discussion is dedicated to fuzzy function approximation, fuzzy chaos and control, fuzzy signal processing, fuzzy communication, fuzzy hardware, computing in fuzzy cubes, and feedback in fuzzy cubes.

Fuzzy Engineering

PRENTICE/HALL

Written by one of the foremost experts in the field of neural networks, this is the first book to combine the theories and applications or neural networks and fuzzy systems. The book is divided into three sections: Neural Network Theory, Neural Network Applications, and Fuzzy Theory and Applications. It describes how neural networks can be used in applications such as: signal and image processing, function estimation, robotics and control, analog VLSI and optical hardware design; and concludes with a presentation of the new geometric theory of fuzzy sets, systems, and associative memories.

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Machine Intelligence/Book and Disk

Certification

William Gibson meets Tom Clancy in this brilliant and chilling cyberthriller set in the multimedia world of the near furture--where oil is running out, wars are smart, and intelkligent software agents may be the only friends you can trust.
In the year 2030--when the world has doubled in population and no one escape the prying eyes of the State--John Grant wants to save the Earth from its addiction to oil and get rich in the process. But the revoultionary new molecule he has patented--an astonishing advance that can split water and produce a virtually limitless supply of cheap feul hydrogen--has marke him as a traitor to his country. . .and as a target. Sufi mystic, genius mathematician and master terroist Hamid Tabriz wants Grant's patent and his mind. Now both goals are within Tabriz's reach, thankls to a chip he has perfected which enables him to place his own mind in another's head.
An increasingly chatic world is racing toward annihilation. And John Grant will have to defend it--and himself--from a disembdied place far beyond the confines of space and time: in NANOTIME.

Nanotime

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

AVON.

Having patented a new molecule that can supply a limitless supply of cheap fuel, John Grant finds himself targeted by terrorists and those he would put out of business, a situation that catapults him beyond the confines of known space and time.

Avon/Books

Who draws the line in the digital age? Those with the most power? Does the digital age even have black-and-white parameters? Where does one country's Internet jurisdiction end and an-other country's begin? Who owns the ocean or the moon -- or even you? Would you be you if a chip replaced your brain? Fuzzy logic has been the most explosive new concept in science since chaos theory. Now, Bart Kosko, the leading proponent of this revolutionary worldview, tackles these questions and shows how fuzzy thinking will shape every aspect of life in the digital age, from politics and genetics, to warfare and technology and art, and finally to mortality itself. The Fuzzy Future starts with a self-contained explanation of fuzzy logic and then explores how shades of gray, or fuzz, will change how we vote, pay taxes, fund science, shop on the Internet, view abortion, have children, fish the oceans, wage "smart" wars or create "smart" art, raise machine IQs, invest money, view black holes, and confide in our software agents. It also shows us how we may someday challenge death in the digital immortality of a nanochip. Today camcorders, Internet spam filters, nuclear power plants, and the new Volkswagen Beetle depend on fuzzy logic. Tomorrow we may, too, because the future is fuzzy.

The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Harmony

Would you still be you if a chip replaced your brain? Who draws the line in the digital age? Those with the most power? Does the digital age even have black-and-white parameters? Where does one country's Internet jurisdiction end and another's begin? Who owns the ocean or the moon -- or your genome blueprint? Bart Kosko sheds new insight on these questions and shows how a revolutionary way of thinking will affect every aspect of life from politics and genetics to warfare, technology, art, privacy, and even mortality itself.

Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age

Three Rivers Press

The science commentator author of the best-selling Fuzzy Thinking presents a scientific history of noise for general readers, defining noise as an unaesthetic signal that occurs at every level of the universe that has made significant contributions in each period from the ice age to the information age. 20,000 first printing.

Noise

Viking Adult

A washing machine that gauges each load to determine how much soap to use An air conditioner that constantly adjusts cooling strength based on room temperature These "smart" products are possible with the advent of "fuzzy logic, " the principle that's revolutionizing science. Now, its chief proponent presents a brilliant, popular account of the field called the "new chaos.".

Hyperion

Self-Help

Audio Literature

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Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Engineering

Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Machine Intelligence/Book and Disk

Nanotime

Nanotime

The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip

Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age

Noise

Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic

Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic