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When professional standards are lax: the CONFIRM failure and its lessons

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 37 , Issue 10 (October 1994) table of contents

Pages: 29 - 43

Year of Publication: 1994

ISSN:0001-0782

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Effy Oz

Wayne State Univ.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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