Incremental research vs. paradigm-shift mania

Authors:
Bertrand Meyer
Affiliations:
ETH Zurich, ITMO, and Eiffel Software
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
2012

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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.twitterFollow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/blogCACMhttp://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacmBertrand Meyer asks why too many research agencies seem obsessed with funding only groundbreaking projects.