I heard similar complaints about NASA scientists. Although plagiarism is not the main issue it is mostly a tendency to selectively reference previous work and give the impression that only other NASA scientists or associated US research institutes have done similar work, ignoring research by non-US institutes.
If you look at the Wikipedia entry for 'Evolvable Hardware' it gives the distinct impression that it was invented by NASA is something that only NASA are doing. The history and background to the research has all been edited out.
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I heard similar complaints about NASA scientists. Although plagiarism is not the main issue it is mostly a tendency to selectively reference previous work and give the impression that only other NASA scientists or associated US research institutes have done similar work, ignoring research by non-US institutes. If you look at the Wikipedia entry for 'Evolvable Hardware' it gives the distinct impression that it was invented by NASA is something that only NASA are doing. The history and background to the research has all been edited out. ----- ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY! even the bits that aren't