Forwarded message: > > I'm looking for someone how has worked with or is now working with the > method devloped by G.S. Altshuller for creating inventions by solving > the paradox that initially arises from trying to envision an ideal > solution to some problem. ( ie. an ideal solution to this problem needs to > be both hot and cold or soft and hard at the same time.) Altshuller > then went on to create invention algorithms > > As far as I can tell, G.S. Altshuller worked out the Minsk in Belorus > in the 1960's and 1970's. > > His methods then spread to many scientific and research institutes throughout > the FSU. > > When I was in Ukraine the past summer, I was told of newspaper stories > from the 1970's highlighting the accounts of high school-aged students > solving college-level engineering problems using Altshuller's algorithms. > > I ran into someone at CPSI @ Buffalo State several years ago who > credited Altshullers method's as the key to the "revitalization" of the > Israeli defence industry in the 1970's. > > One of his books was translated as vol #5,in the Studies in Cybernetics > series "Creativity as an Exact Science, the Theory of the solution of > Inventive Problems.", 1988. > > I'm trying collecting materials for a 13 week course on Lateral > thinking that I'll be teaching to engineers at a local community > college and I'd like to tie in some recent theory, applications and > any background material if it's available. > > Down the road, I'm looking for anyone who can present this in a 1-2 day > workshop format in both English and Ukrainian -must be fluent and > experienced in both languages (funding may become available soon). > > Reply to Walter Derzko, <[log in to unmask]> stating your > experience and applications of Altshuller's methods. >