It's striking how consistently people who have used the Heilmeier Catechism as a research-gating-tool swear by its results, even in private conversations.https://twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt/status/1038495037737263105 …
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Replying to @Ben_Reinhardt
Also striking how Licklider & the ARPA-PARC old-timers thought it marked the end of the successful old ARPA! I think it works IF your goals are more near-term & specific, but not if you're trying to find more Licklider-style *visions* & longer-term work, cf Alan Kay on this
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Good point! At the same time, some of the key work on quantum computing was run by IARPA under the catechism in the mid-00's to arguably great effect. There was Kay-style pushback at first, but it generated results. This leads me to suspect there are some other factors at play
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Yup, it definitely works, but I guess it's very hard, perhaps impossible, to figure out how to avoid it also stopping you funding things of great value that don't yet have good answers for the catechism... Without resorting to 'the taste of the funder'! E.g Bob Taylor
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Alan Kay might say the trick here is "people not projects" someone who is good at finding answers to these questions may have useful perspective on all kinds of things this would come out automatically at yearly campfire gatherings where every grad student funded would come out
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