Hunch Engine™ featured in MIT Technology Review article
Icosystem Corporation Press Release
Cambridge, MA - 01 September 2006

The Art of the Possible

Can Eric Bonabeau's Hunch Engine™ expand your mind?

By Wade Roush, MIT Technology Review

... According to the company's publicity materials, the Hunch Engine™ is software that uses evolutionary algorithms to breed solutions to science, engineering, business, or design problems--solutions that no human mind could have predicted. Icosystem claims that evolutionary algorithms expose ideas to a kind of natural selection, allowing users to "reach beyond the limits of their imagination." But the notion that serendipity might produce better results than thinking and planning left me suspicious.

Read the full article on the MIT Technology Review web site.

About Icosystem Corporation

Icosystem Corporation, a strategy consulting firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has emerged as a leader in the development of business applications for network theory and complexity science. Using the tools of complexity science and advanced computational techniques, Icosystem provides a highly flexible and cost-effective technology platform for exploring business problems and discovering or designing strategies that have significant impact. Icosystem's approach uses realistic models of complex business environments and evolutionary and distributed computational techniques to validate new business ventures or improve the performance of existing enterprises.