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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 35 , Issue 12 (December 1992) table of contents
Special issue on information filtering

Pages: 82 - 97

Year of Publication: 1992

ISSN:0001-0782

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Peter J. Denning

George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
K. Computing Milieux
K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION

General Terms:
Experimentation, Human Factors, Management, Measurement, Performance

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