1. Joseph Amadee Goguen was an American computer scientist.
11 Facts About Joseph Goguen
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Joseph Goguen was professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford, and held research positions at IBM and SRI International.
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Joseph Goguen was author of A Categorical Manifesto and founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
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Joseph Goguen was married to Ryoko Amadee Goguen, who is a composer, pianist, and vocalist.
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Joseph Goguen received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University in 1963, and his PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1968, where he was a student of the founder of fuzzy set theory, Lotfi Zadeh.
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Joseph Goguen taught at UC Berkeley, the University of Chicago and University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a full professor of computer science.
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Joseph Goguen held a Research Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences at the IBM Watson Research Center, where he organised the "ADJ" group.
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Joseph Goguen visited the University of Edinburgh in Scotland on three Senior Visiting Fellowships.
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From 1979 to 1988, Joseph Goguen worked at SRI International in Menlo Park, California.
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Joseph Goguen studied the philosophy of computation and information, formal methods, and relational and functional programming.
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Joseph Goguen wrote a retrospective of his work and its context, Tossing Algebraic Flowers Down the Great Divide.