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Using the new ACM code of ethics in decision making

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 36 , Issue 2 (February 1993) table of contents

Pages: 98 - 107

Year of Publication: 1993

ISSN:0001-0782

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Ronald E. Anderson	Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Deborah G. Johnson
Donald Gotterbarn
Judith Perrolle

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ACM-Code-of-Ethics.html (43 KB)

This Code and the supplemental Guidelines were developed by the Task Force for the Revision of the ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and adopted by the ACM Council on October 16, 1992. The Code is freely available and may be published without permission as long as it is not changed in any way and it carries the copyright notice. Copyright ©1997, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.

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