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It is an honor to contribute my short article to this special issue commemorating the life and work of Professor Zdzisław Pawlak. In this article I would like to discuss my encounters with the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in general, and how I see rough set theory and Professor Zdzisław Pawlak in this context. I have been fortunate to know some of the greatest scholars in the AI field. There are many of them, but if I had to choose the three I admire most, they are: Professors Zdzisław Pawlak, Lotfi Zadeh and Herbert A. Simon. There are common characteristics among all of them. Although they are the most prominent of scholars, all are frank and easy and pleasant to talk with. All are professionally active at ages where ordinary people would have long since retired.
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Munakata, T. (2007). A Personal View on AI, Rough Set Theory and Professor Pawlak. In: Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Düntsch, I., Grzymała-Busse, J., Orłowska, E., Polkowski, L. (eds) Transactions on Rough Sets VI. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4374. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71200-8_14
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