Jan 10, 2019
Dear TRIZ Leaders/Colleagues,
Toru Nakagawa
Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University
Greetings from Japan for a Happy New Year 2019!!
Wish the year be peaceful in the World, and healthy, happy, and successful for you all.
"TRIZ Home Page in Japan" has been updated today (dated Jan. 10) in English and Japanese pages.
http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/
[1] Message for the New Year 2019 (Toru Nakagawa)
[2] "Computational Creativity: Path to Future Civilization"
Valeri Tsourikov, Keynote Lecture at TRIZfest2014
[3] TRIZ News: Plans of Conferences in Japan and in the world:
Japan TRIZ Symp., Japan Creativity Society Conf.;
AI TRIZCON2019, I-SIM ICSI2019, MATRIZ TRIZfest2019, ETRIA TFC2019
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[1] Message for the New Year 2019 (Toru Nakagawa)
It is a tradition in Japan to send post cards
for celebrating a new year.
I posted my New Year post card (in Japanese), which I sent
to my friends whom I met before my TRIZ days.
Here is the message in English. :
Happy New Year 2019 !!
I keep working for the research and proliferation of
'Methodologies of Creative Problem Solving (TRIZ/CrePS)'.
This Web site "TRIZ Home Page in Japan" celebrated the
20th Anniversary last November to my thanks to you all.
I have proposed a voluntary international project 'World
TRIZ Sites Project (WTSP)' and am endeavoring to build
Catalogs for introducing TRIZ-related Web sites in the world.
After an year of initial preparation, I have just made up
my mind to complete its first Edition in October 2019,
to update it completely in every 2 years, and to run the
operation for 10 years, in cooperation with many TRIZ colleagues.
Human Culture has chosen (or recognized) Liberty and Love
as the two Principal Guiding Principles, but there exist
intrinsic contradictions, inside each of them and between
the two, which have not been resolved throughout the human history.
It should be Ethics that motivates and coordinates both
Liberty and Love; Ethics is the most basic Principal Guiding
Principle based on the understanding that every person has
the rights to pursue one's own happiness.
Pursuing for the three goals together, i.e., to extend
Liberty, to expand (or universalize) Love, and to deepen
Ethics, is Good for individuals and for societies.
Insisting and pursuing for 'Liberty alone / Love alone /
Ethics alone' is NO Good.
This is my understanding at the present stage.
I wish you all your health, happiness, and success.
January 1st, 2019 Toru Nakagawa
This page also contains links to several relevant pages,
the photo of the glacier in Switzerland, and 8 photos of
swallows at my home.
[2] Paper: Computational Creativity: Path to Future Civilization
Valeri Tsourikov (Minsk, Belarus), Keynote talk at
TRIZfest2014 Conference, Prague, Sept. 5, 2014;
Japanese translation by Toru Nakagawa
Dr. Valeri Tsourikov started Invention Machine Project in
mid 1980s in Minsk, Belarus, and after moving to Boston in
early 1990s his Invention Machine Inc. built the
TechOptimizer software which fully implements knowledge bases
and tools of TRIZ.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is his specialty area.
He developed semantic analysis methods of natural language
with the keys of SVO structure, and hence made it practical
to process huge volume of patent and scientific/technical
documents and output the essence of knowledge in compact
and usable forms.
The software contributed much to the sensational debut of
TRIZ in late 1990s in US, Europe, Japan, etc.
He also developed an epoch-making concept of 'software
which assists inventions' and implemented it into a prototype ;
his thoughts, however, seemed to be too early at that time.
In 2001 he left IMC, and never appeared in the TRIZ community
for many years.
In 2014 he gave a Keynote lecture at MATRIZ TRIZfest
conference, with the slides posted here.
Last October at ETRIA TFC2018 he gave another Keynote
Lecture, and I met him after 17 years of interval.
Dr. Tsourikov kindly contributed his two Keynote
presentations to this Web site.
I have chosen to post his Keynote 2014 because it's
more basic and easier for us to understand.
"Artificial Intelligence is surely going to supercede human brains.
It is natural and inevitable.
AI will supercede much higher pretty soon.
AI techniques will handle not only practical and formalizable
jobs (as many people say) but also creative jobs like
inventions (in contrary to sayings by many) much better
than human brains.
As the results of my research for these 20 years, I have
already built such a prototype. " he says.
Anyway please read his presentation slides posted here
in English and in Japanese translation.
[3A] TRIZ News: TRIZ News in Japan
Japan TRIZ Society (JTS) is going to hold 15th TRIZ Symposium
in Japan on Sept. 5 - 6, 2019 in Tokyo.
Japan Creativity Society (JCS) is going to hold its
41st Annual Conference on , 2019 at JAIST near Kanazawa.
[3B] TRIZ News: TRIZ News Outside Japan
Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies (AI) is going to hold
TRIZCON2019 on May 20-22, 2019 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA .
International Society of Innovation Methods (I-SIM) is going
to hold ICSI 2019 on Jul. 8-11, 2019, in Liverpool, UK.
International TRIZ Association (MATRIZ) is going to hold
TRIZfest-2019 Conference and related events
on Sept. 11-14, 2019 in Heilbronn, Germany.
European TRIZ Association (ETRIA) is going to hold
19th TRIZ Future Conference (TFC2019) on Oct. 9 - 11, 2019
at ENSA Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Director of CrePS Institute:
Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series (in Japanese)
3-1-13 Eirakudai, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0086, Japan.
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Best wishes,
Toru
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Toru Nakagawa, Dr., Professor Emeritus, Osaka Gakuin University
E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [Main email address. for receiving.]
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [for sending]
Editor of the "TRIZ Home Page in Japan":
URL:http://www.osaka-gu.ac.jp/php/nakagawa/TRIZ/eTRIZ/
Director of CrePS Institute:
Publication of "TRIZ Practices and Benefits" book series (in Japanese)
3-1-13 Eirakudai, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-0086, Japan.
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