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...also said she has asked President Derek C. Bok and Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert M. Coles '50 to sit on the project's advisory board...
What is fuzzy logic? The original concept, developed in the mid-'60s by Lofti Zadeh, a Russian-born professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, is that things in the real world do not fall into the neat, crisp categories defined by traditional set theory, like the set of even numbers or the set of left-handed baseball players. In standard Aristotelian logic, as in computer science, membership in a class or set is not a matter of degree. Either a number is even, or it is not. But this on-or-off, black-or- white...
...fact, several biographical attempts--conducted by then-Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter, Mark DeWolfe Howe, one of Holmes' legal secretaries, and Grant Gilmore, a professor of law at Yale--have been made since Holmes' death in 1935. But until Sheldon Novick's brilliant and illuminating examination of Holmes' life was released, no one had succeeded in mapping the life of the Olympian jurist...
Despite the subject matter, the legalese is not too confusing, however. Novick, a professor of law at the University of Vermont, does his best to explain in human terms the theories behind the decisions and their significance. And the author's characterizations of the other justices and his descriptions of way the Court made its decisions will be enough to hold the interest of those who are still not consumed by legal theories...
MOST of all, there's Valvano, professor of "the Art of the Big Con 101." A liar, a cheat, a turncoat, a PR mastermind--this is not the funny loudmouth we saw on CBS looking for someone to hug after winning the NCAA championship...