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Not really. Although fuzzy logic has been generating a lot of interest in this country recently, it is far from new. Lotfi Zadeh (1965), of the University of California at Berkeley, proposed many of the original ideas when he published his first famous research paper on fuzzy sets in 1965. Japanese companies have been using fuzzy logic for over 50 years. They have been granted over 2000 patents and have designed fuzzy logic into hundreds of products ranging from elevator and traffic control systems to video cameras and refrigerators.

One frequently cited example is a one‐button washing machine. This machine senses the size of the load of clothes, the amount and type of dirt and then selects the proper quantity of soap, water level, water temperature, and washing time. Fuzzy logic has also been applied to the classic driverless truck‐backer‐upper problem and automatic flight control for helicopters.