The posterity of Zadeh´s 50-year-old paper

This article was commissioned by the 22^nd IEEE International Conference of Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE) to celebrate the 50^th Anniversary of Lotfi Zadeh´s seminal 1965 paper on fuzzy sets. In addition to Lotfi´s original paper, this note itemizes 100 citations of books and papers deemed “important (significant, seminal, etc.)” by 20 of the 21 living IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems pioneers. Each of the 20 contributors supplied 5 citations, and Lotfi´s paper makes the overall list a tidy 101, as in “Fuzzy Sets 101”. This note is not a survey in any real sense of the word, but the contributors did offer short remarks to indicate the reason for inclusion (e.g., historical, topical, seminal, etc.) of each citation. Citation statistics are easy to find and notoriously erroneous, so we refrain from reporting them - almost. The exception is that according to Google scholar on April 9, 2015, Lotfi´s 1965 paper has been cited 55,479 times.