We are grateful to Prof. Rudolf Seizing of the Medical University of Vienna for providing us the slides of
his talks on the
history of fuzzy sets he presented at NAFIPS and FUZZ-IEEE 2005. The corresponding
texts and
references are available at the respective conference proceedings, both
published by IEEE:
1-R. Seizing, The
40th Anniversary of fuzzy sets: A new view on system theory. Proc. North
American
Fuzzy Information
Processing Society Annual Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 22-25,
2005.
2-R. Seizing, 1965
– “Fuzzy sets” appear – A contribution to the 40th anniversary. Proc.
IEEE Int. Conference
on Fuzzy Systems,
Reno, Nevada, USA, May 22-25, 2005.