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In the 1960s, the discipline of computer science (CS) emerged from electrical engineering (EE) and research fields in mathematics and mathematical logic. Around the same time, fuzzy sets (FSs) appeared as a new mathematical theory, founded by the electrical engineer Lotfi Aliasker Zadeh. Some unpublished documents of Zadeh´s show that the emergence of CS and the theory of FSs were interlinked. Zadeh´s task as chair of the EE Department at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB); his activities in the education of mathematics, EE, system theory, information theory (IT), and CSs; and his creation of the theory of FSs generated his view and choice of contents for the new discipline of CS as an FS.