#eureqa

Hyderabad based SaaS startup eureQa secures $600K seed

Hyderabad based Test Automation SaaS startup eureQa gets it’s seed funding of $600k from Gabriel Investments, a Philadelphia,PA based venture cap fund. Sashi Reddy of Gabriel will also join the board of eureQa.

“We are looking forward to working with Sashi Reddi, who is one of the foremost experts on software testing, to guide us in this fast evolving market,” said Badri Nittoor, co-founder/CEO…

Have you guys heard of Eureqa? I just learned of it from a Radiolab. And, frankly, it sounds unutterably amazing.

Basically, it's the kind of narrow AI scientists have dreamed of: It will analyze experiments and derive patterns and laws from the data. (And with some extra gear, will perform much of the tedious experimental work too!)

Case in point: Using a double-pendulum it independently "thought up" the conservation of energy and F=MA. (Don't ask me how; it's all magic to me!)

That was some of its early results.

In fact, while this was first developed a few years ago - and is freely available for download - the only problem has been that Eureqa discovers such complex and novel patterns, researchers often don't know what it means! Still helpful, but still confusing. So Eureqa's developers have spent the past few years working on how to better enable the program to "explain" it's findings. (Like I said, it's all voodoo to me!)

Check it out:

Main Site at Cornell University

Wired.com (Titled, 'Download Your Own Robot Scientist'!)