Bart Kosko
Author of Fuzzy Thinking: The New Science of Fuzzy Logic
About the Author
Bart Kosko is a professor of electrical engineering at USC.
Works by Bart Kosko
Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Machine Intelligence/Book and Disk (1991) 60 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps: Advances in Theory, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (2010) — Preface, some editions — 3 copies
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- Canonical name
- Kosko, Bart
- Legal name
- Kosko, Bart Andrew
- Birthdate
- 1960-02-07
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Kansas City, Kansas, USA
- Education
- University of Southern California (BA ∙ Philosophy and Economics)
University of California, San Diego (MS ∙ Applied Mathematics)
University of California, Irvine (PhD ∙ Electrical Engineering)
Concord Law School (JD) - Occupations
- attorney
academic
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Probably more or less ok. This book took me 20 years to get around to reading. It wasn't worth the wait but I'm still glad I read it.
Interesting book, but as noted in one other review here review, not particularly well written. I found myself skimming the later chapters just to read the quotes Kosko included. Short summaries (dumping the math) could be "It depends" or "there is no black and white" or to use his own statement "everything is a matter of degree". I had this on my shelf and picked it up while reading Michael Shermer's "How We Believe" to follow up on a reference Shermer made. While not a fuzzy activist, I recognized while reading that long ago I adopted mostly fuzzy thinking, meaning all things are relative.… (more)
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Slow on dealing the knowledge, and long in the persecution. This is more memoir than edifying.