Bart Kosko

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Bart Kosko (b. February 7, 1960) is professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). He is a leading proponent and popularizer of fuzzy logic, and is author of several books. He is an expert on mind and machine intelligence including military applications and smart weapons.

Bart Kosko received bachelor's degrees in economics and philosophy from the University of Southern California, the master's degree in applied mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, and the doctorate degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Irvine. He recently received his JD from the Concord Law School and is a licensed California attorney.

He currently teaches probability and statistics (among other things) at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering

[edit] Books

• Neural Networks for Signal Processing (1991). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-617390-X
• Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Machine Intelligence (1991). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-611435-0 (book includes disk)
• Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic (1993). Hyperion. ISBN 0-7868-8021-X
• Fuzzy Engineering (1996). Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-124991-6
• Nanotime (1998). Avon Books. ISBN 0-380-79147-1 (a novel)
• The Fuzzy Future: From Society and Science to Heaven in a Chip (1999) Harmony Press hardcover. ISBN 0-609-60446-5
  • retitled Heaven in a Chip: Fuzzy Visions of Society and Science in the Digital Age by Three Rivers Press in 2000. paperback: ISBN 0-609-80567-3
• Noise (2006). Viking Press. ISBN 0-670-03495-9

[edit] External links

• University of Southern California - Signal and Imaging Processing Institute – Kosko's homepage
• University of Southern California - Signal and Imaging Processing Institute – Profile on the USC web site
• Profile from IEEE Spectrum, February 1996 (PDF file)
• Q & A from Wired, February 1995 {PDF file}
• "In Defense of God" from IEEE Expert, February 1990 (PDF file)
• U.S. Patent 5,539,769  "Adaptive Fuzzy Frequency Hopping System", filed March 1994, issued July 1996