Scott Dattalo <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> Andy, you and Bob Pease (National Semiconductor/Electronic Design
> Magazine) must be good buddies! He relentlessly blasts those who
> pray to the fuzzy gods.

Scott:

Actually, no.  I disagree with much of Bob's philosophy, although I
find his analog designs pretty fascinating... Maybe that's just
because MY analog design knowledge is so laughably limited.

After one of the day's sessions were completed at that fuzzy-logic
conference that I mentioned, I found myself in a room with Bob
Pease, Lotfi Zadeh, Bart Kosko, Walter Banks, David Brubaker, and
about half-a-dozen "civilians" like myself.

Interestingly, in the two hours before the hotel management made us
leave the room, Pease didn't really have much to say to these people
in defense of his position.  Now, it may be that he was tired after
the long day, or that he's just not as good at public debate as the
others... I don't know.  Most of his arguments were very superficial,
easily dismissed by the fuzzy-logic proponents in the room, and in
the end, he seemed almost to have given up and come around to their
point of view.

I suspect that his original Luddite perspective was more emotional
than intellectual... I haven't read his column for the last year or
so, but I'm surprised that he's still bashing fuzzy after that
conference.

-Andy

Andrew Warren - fastfwd@ix.netcom.com
Fast Forward Engineering, Vista, California
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