About the authors

Walter Banks is the president of Byte Craft Limited, a company specializing in code creation tools for embedded systems. One of these products, Fuzz-C" Preprocessor for Fuzzy Logic, adds linguistic variables and fuzzy logic operators to programs written in C . Fuzz-C is implemented as a preprocessor, making it compatible with most C compilers.

Gordon Hayward is an associate professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph. His research is primarily in the field of instrument design, and his current projects include the design of sensors to monitor environmental contaminants and the use of piezoelectric crystals as chemical sensors. In many applications, the required information can not be measured precisely (flavour is a good example), hence his interest in fuzzy logic.