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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 35 , Issue 3 (March 1992) table of contents

Pages: 121 - 132

Year of Publication: 1992

ISSN:0001-0782

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Marcia C. Linn	School of Education, 4611 Tolman
Michael J. Clancy	EECS/Computer Science, 545 Evans Hall, at the University of California, Berkeley, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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