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Volume 52 , Issue 2 (February 2009) table of contents
Inspiring Women in Computing

COLUMN: Practice table of contents

Pages 44-51

Year of Publication: 2009

ISSN:0001-0782

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Tom Leighton

Akamai Technologies

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Given the Internet's bottlenecks, how can we build fast, scalable, content-delivery systems?

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