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On 5/24/24 03:17, Ralph Corderoy wrote:<span
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Rob wrote:
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">"Fuzzing" as it is now called (for no reason I can intuit)
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Barton Miller describes coining the term.
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As to where the inspiration of choice of word came from, I'll
speculate : Bart Miller was a CS grad student contemporary of mine
at Berkeley. Prof. Lotfi Zadeh was working on fuzzy logic, fuzzy
sets, and "possibility theory". (Prof. William Kahan hated this
work, and called it "wrong, and pernicious": cf.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020025508000716">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020025508000716</a>.)
So the term "fuzzy" was almost infamous in the department.<br>
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Prof. Richard Lipton was also at Berkeley at that time, and was
working on program mutation testing, which fuzzes the program to
determine the adequacy of test coverage, rather than fuzzing the
test data.<br>
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Dan H.<br>
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