1
Look at the photo and answer the questions.
- Who is the man in the picture?
- What do you know about him?
2
Read the text and answer the question.
- Was Lotfi A.Zadeh successful? Why or why not?
Lotfi A.Zadeh was a great mathematician, electrical
engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, computer
scientist, and professor.
Lotfi A.Zadeh was born on February 4, in 1921, in Baku.
He had lived in Baku for 10 years before his family
moved to Iran in 1932. After he had finished his studies at the University of Tehran,
he emigrated to the United States in 1943 and entered Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. By 1959, Lotfi A.Zadeh had received Ph.D and Doctor of Science degrees
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University.
He was a prominent scientist whose works are most referred to in the world. By 2000,
people all over the world had referred to his works more than 36000 times. By 2017, he
had worked as a lifelong professor and director of the Institute of Soft Computing.
The great scientist died on 6 September, in 2017 at the age of 96.
3
Look at the boldfaced phrases in the text and decide what kind of action they show.
a) an earlier action
b) a later action
Past Perfect
Study the rules and examples on Page 182 before you do the following tasks.
4
Look at some important events in Lotfi A. Zadeh's life and complete the sentences
on
the next page. Use the verbs below.