Telegraph had an article on the fog problem of Delhi. Fog has been a major transportation problem in Delhi especially for air travel in recent years. The situation is aggravated by lack of any reliable advance fog forecasting system.
Scientists at the Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation in Bangalore have teamed up with a software company to produce fog forecasts 12 to 24 hours in advance... using fuzzy logic - a mathematical technique to handle imprecise concepts.
Fuzzy logic is an extension of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth.
It is a controversial despite wide acceptance as many statisticians argue that probability is the only mathematical description of uncertainity. Fuzzy logic introduces the concept of possibility theory as an alternative or even as a superset of probability theory. Prof. Lofti Zadeh from Berkeley proposed the fuzzy set theory in 1965.
Plato laid the foundation of fuzzy logic when he indicated that there was a third region beyond true and false
And finally for those into psychedelic rock - the group Super Furry Animals' debut album was also called Fuzzy logic
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