On the History of Fuzzy Clustering: An Interview with Jim Bezdek and Enrique Ruspini [History]

Enrique H?ctor Ruspini (Figure1) received his degree in mathematics from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1965 and his doctoral degree in system science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1977 [1]. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS). Dr. Ruspini has held positions at the University of Buenos Aires, the University of Southern California, UCLA´s Brain Research Institute, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, the SRI International Artificial Intelligence (AI) Center, and the European Center for Soft Computing.