A Boston company aims to make invention automatic.
Thomas Edison called genius "one percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration." Now Valery Tsourikov, a Russian-born entrepreneur, believes he has found a way to package the 99 percent and sell it as software.
Tsourikov's Boston-based company, aptly named "Invention Machine," has created and patented a program to speed the process of coming up with new technologies. "We understand how people invent," Tsourikov claims. "It's cause-effect analysis, backward reasoning and forward reasoning." The magic of genius, he says, comes from having a large knowledge base and knowing how to apply it.
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