James C BezdekJim received the BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Nevada (Reno) in 1969; and the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1973. Jim is past president of NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society), IFSA (Inernational Fuzzy Systems Association) and the IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society when it was the Neural Networks Council): founding editor the Int'l. Jo. Approximate Reasoning and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Life fellow of the IEEE and IFSA; recipient of the IEEE 3rd Millennium, IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer, and IEEE technical field award Rosenblatt medals; and the IPMU Kempe de Feret award. Read More Read Less