PBS Professor Emeritus Stephen Grossberg Wins Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
Congratulations to PBS Professor Emeritus Stephen Grossberg, who was recently awarded the Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society for “seminal contributions to understanding brain cognition and behavior and their emulation by technology.” On receiving the award, Professor Grossberg has responded:
I feel greatly honored to be awarded a Lotfi A. Zadeh Pioneer Award of the IEEE SMC Society. Lotfi was a personal friend as well as a scientist and engineer whom I greatly admired.We also both shared a history of being PIONEERS who introduced and developed many of the foundational concepts and models of our fields, his being the field of Fuzzy Logic and its related branches, and me the fields of biological and artificial neural networks, computational neuroscience, and theoretical psychology and cognitive neuroscience.Your award to me for my contributions to understanding brain cognition and behavior and their emulation in technology beautifully summarizes what my life’s work is all about. Thanks VERY much for this wonderful honor. I will always treasure it.