Joseph Goguen

Joseph Amadee Goguen (1941–2006) was an American computer scientist and professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego—also at Berkeley, UCLA, Oxford, and elsewhere—whose work shaped fuzzy logic, algebraic semantics, the OBJ family of programming languages, institution theory, and consciousness studies. A student of Lotfi Zadeh, he was founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consciousness Studies and author of A Categorical Manifesto. At UCSD his students included Jonathan Phillips (SCALE co-founder) and D. Fox Harrell, now Professor of Digital Media and Artificial Intelligence at MIT. He contributed to SCALE as author — Issue No. 3 (Confessions from a Travel-worn Briefcase), Issue No. 5 (Against Technological Determinism).