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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 37 , Issue 9 (September 1994) table of contents

Pages: 87 - 101

Year of Publication: 1994

ISSN:0001-0782

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Robert V. Binder

RBSC, Inc., 3 First National Plaza, Suite, 1400, Chicago, IL

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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