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When I was asked to contribute to this book I wondered what I could tell about my personal experiences in the field of fuzzy sets. It occurred to me that perhaps it would be a good idea to let people know how fuzzy sets and fuzzy control in particular got under way in Brazil. In the mid-seventies, Brazil was not an emerging country, as it is classified nowadays, and doing research in novel subjects was much harder than it is now. I also felt it would be useful to tell something about the days I spent at Queen Mary College (QMC) in the 1980s, working in Abe Mamdani’s research group, which was a very pleasant experience. As a conclusion, I return to Brazil, giving a brief view on how things stand today and what are the expectations of our scientific community.
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Tanscheit, R. (2013). Fuzzy Systems in Brazil and at QMC. In: Seising, R., Trillas, E., Moraga, C., Termini, S. (eds) On Fuzziness. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 299. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35644-5_35
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