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How good is good enough?: an ethical analysis of software construction and use

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 37 , Issue 1 (January 1994) table of contents

Pages: 81 - 91

Year of Publication: 1994

ISSN:0001-0782

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W. Robert Collins	College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Keith W. Miller	Sangamon State Univ., Springfield, IL
Bethany J. Spielman	Southern Illinois Univ. of Medicine, Springfield, IL
Phillip Wherry	MITRE Corp., McLean, VA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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