Phụ lục 2:
IN MEMORY OF GENRIKH
SAULOVICH ALTSHULLER
In my 18 years as a software engineer and manager at Bell Laboratories
and Motorola, I have been lucky to work on interesting benchmarking,
process improvement, technology transfer, and creativity-oriented
initiatives. However, none of these programs have uniquely changed my
perspective on engineering and creativity, and indeed, the world in general,
as much as TRIZ. People who know me now consider me as someone who
views the world through "TRIZ-colored glasses." Altshuller's work has
changed my life. He was to the creativity and problem solving domains what
W. Edwards Deming was to the quality improvement domain. Altshuller's
impact will be felt for years to come. Coincidence that the middle name we
had already chosen for our baby boy, due in October, is Henry, the American
version of Genrich? I think not.
Maria B. Thompson, Motorola Intellectual Property Department, USA
The legacy Genrich Saulovich Altshuller leaves behind will long maintain
its importance. The understanding of innovation that he has imparted to
mankind is priceless and earns for him a place with the greatest thinkers of
history. I am indebted to his work as a student, inventor, and man.
Dr. Michael S. Slocum, The Inventioneering Company, Coeditor of the
TRIZ Journal published by the TRIZ Institute, USA
Altshuller was one of the greatest thinkers of the century. He was a very
determined person. He was determined to pave the way for a new way of
thinking regarding problems in innovation. It was a noble goal. Altshuller
sacrificed many great opportunities in his life that would have given him
wealth. He preferred TRIZ. Altshuller and his science were supported by his
many enthusiastic followers. TRIZ has changed the lives of many
