George J. Klir
George J. Klir is currently a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Systems Science at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He has been with Binghamton since 1969.
His earlier work was in the areas of systems modeling and simulation, logic design, computer architecture and discrete mathematics. Klir’s current research interests include the areas of intelligent systems, generalized information theory, fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, theory of generalized measures and soft computing.
He is the author of over 300 articles and 16 books. He has also edited 10 books and has been editor of the International Journal of General Systems since 1974 and the International Book Series on Systems Science and Systems Engineeringsince 1985.
Klir was president of SGSR (1981-82), IFSR (1980-84), NAFIPS (1988-1991) and IFSA (1993-1995). He is a fellow of IEEE and IFSA, and has received numerous awards and honors, including five honorary doctoral degrees, the Gold Medal of Bernard Bolzano, the Lotfi A. Zadeh Best Paper Award, the Kaufmann's Gold Medal, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and the IFSA Award for Outstanding Achievement.
His research has been supported for more than 20 years by grants from the NSF, ONR, Air Force, NASA, NATO, Sandia Laboratories and some industries. Klir has a PhD, Computer Science from Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1964) as well as a MS in Electrical Engineering from Czech Technical University (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1957).
Source: http://ssie.binghamton.edu/people/klir.html
His earlier work was in the areas of systems modeling and simulation, logic design, computer architecture and discrete mathematics. Klir’s current research interests include the areas of intelligent systems, generalized information theory, fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, theory of generalized measures and soft computing.
He is the author of over 300 articles and 16 books. He has also edited 10 books and has been editor of the International Journal of General Systems since 1974 and the International Book Series on Systems Science and Systems Engineeringsince 1985.
Klir was president of SGSR (1981-82), IFSR (1980-84), NAFIPS (1988-1991) and IFSA (1993-1995). He is a fellow of IEEE and IFSA, and has received numerous awards and honors, including five honorary doctoral degrees, the Gold Medal of Bernard Bolzano, the Lotfi A. Zadeh Best Paper Award, the Kaufmann's Gold Medal, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and the IFSA Award for Outstanding Achievement.
His research has been supported for more than 20 years by grants from the NSF, ONR, Air Force, NASA, NATO, Sandia Laboratories and some industries. Klir has a PhD, Computer Science from Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1964) as well as a MS in Electrical Engineering from Czech Technical University (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1957).
Source: http://ssie.binghamton.edu/people/klir.html