This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. Fuzzy logic is a form of logic that extends traditional boolean logic by allowing for degrees of truth, rather than just true or false.

fuzzy logic. Zadeh had observed that conventional computer logic couldn’t manipulate data that represented subjective or vague ideas, so he created fuzzy logic to allow computers to determine ...

In the nineteen-eighties, engineers in Sendai, Japan, incorporated fuzzy logic into the design of the city’s new subway, using it to program the system’s famously smooth starts and stops.

Fuzzy Logic is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that's designed to handle uncertainty and imprecision. Fuzzy Logic allows for the representation of vague concepts and the handling of ...

The rice cooker of my adulthood is built on fuzzy logic, a field of computing that tries to make rational decisions in a world of imprecision. By mimicking our gray matter’s ability to reconcile ...

where Einstein worked during his 20 years in America. The fuzzy slippers, however, have never been found.