FEB 8 1973 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY BERKELEY * DAVIS * IRVINE * LOS ANGELES * RIVERSIDE « SAN DIEGO * SAN FRANCISCO SANTA BARBARA * SANTA CRUZ COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA 94720 DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES January 25, 1973 Professor Joshua Lederberg Department of Genetics School of Medicine Stanford University Stanford, California 94305 Dear Professor Lederberg: I was very pleased gover your expression of interest in my work on fuzzy sets, Of the enclosed reprints, the one entitled "Qutline of a:Ngw Approach to the Analysis of Complex Systems and Decision Processes" may be relevant to the mechanization of inductive inference which you employed in your work on the DENDRAL, Thank you for sending me several reprints of your . papers, Needless to say, I have long had a great admira- yy tion for your work, © S& . Sincerely yours, OAL. toll LAZ:fz ‘ L. A. Zadeh encls, Professor HIE S P.S. Should you he interested, I would be very pleased to visit you at Stanford to discuss some of the basic aspects of the theory of fuzzy sets and its applications. “yy