Bart Kosko

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Bart Andrew Kosko (born February 7, 1960 in Kansas City ) is an author and professor of electrical engineering and law at the University of Southern California (USC). Kosko is known for his research on fuzzy logic and neural networks , as well as the author of several non-fiction books on these and related topics of artificial intelligence .

Personal background

Bart Kosko holds a bachelor's degree in philosophy and economics from USC, a master's degree in applied mathematics from UC San Diego, a doctorate in electrical engineering from UC Irvine, and an online JD in law from online Concord Law School. He is a licensed attorney in California and with the US Federal Supreme Court and has served as the Legal Secretary for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office. Kosko is a political and religious skeptic and co-editor of the libertarian magazine "Liberty" .

Works

Kosko's most popular book to date is the fuzzy-logical international bestseller . A new way of thinking in which he questions the entire foundation of Western thought built on Aristotelian logic and opposes it to fuzzy-logical thinking as an alternative. From his religion-skeptical point of view, belief in God is a neural effect, but he also criticizes the typically Western overemphasis on scientific thinking. According to this, through science , objectivity and logic we would promise ourselves a security that could not exist. In our culture a binary- logical thinking of “either-or” would dominate, with which we suggest that there are undoubted and final truths. According to Kosko, this leads to a “black-and-white thinking” with fading out of any shades of gray, which is far more unrealistic than it would allow statements about reality . From his perspective as a scientist, too, Asian thinking (e.g. Buddhism ), in which the world is not viewed in apparent opposites, is closer to reality.

Kosko also published short stories and the novel "NanoTime" about a possible third world war that will take place on two days in 2030. Kosko uses a minimalist prose style without commas.

Researches

Kosko's research focuses on the main areas of fuzzy logic, neural networks and noise . He introduced several new terms into fuzzy logic, such as a. the cognitive map , additive fuzzy systems, fuzzy-associative memories, variable neural-based fuzzy systems, the conditional variance of fuzzy systems, and the geometric view of finite fuzzy sets as points in hypercubes , as well as their significance in the controversy between fuzzy and Probability .

In the research area of ​​neural networks Kosko introduced techniques for unsupervised learning according to Hebb's learning rule , as well as the concept of bidirectional associative memory .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Liberty" magazine
  2. ↑ Kosko, Bart: fuzzy-logical. A New Way of Thinking , Carlsen 1993
  3. ↑ Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  4. ↑ Global Stability of Generalized Additive Fuzzy Systems, August 1998 (PDF; 479 kB)
  5. ↑ Unsupervised Learning in Noise, March 1990 (PDF; 1.4 MB)
  6. ↑ Bidirectional Associative Memories, February 1998 (PDF; 1.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Kosko, Bart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kosko, Bart Andrew
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and professor, professor of electrical engineering and law at the University of Southern California (USC)
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City (Kansas)