Becoming edumucated
Friday, 20 May , 2005
Heilmeyer's Catechism

I'm attempting to write an extended abstract for Roles '05. Every so often I have to remind myself of a very useful tool that help me keep focused on the main points of the paper. These are from George Heilmeyer when he was the director of ARPA and are good to answer for any research project:

• What is the problem, why is it hard?

• How is it solved today?

• What is the new technical idea; why can we succeed now?

• What is the impact if successful?

• How will the program be organized?

• How will intermediate results be generated.

• How will you measure progress?

• What will it cost?

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