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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 38 , Issue 9 (September 1995) table of contents

Pages: 56 - ff.

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:0001-0782

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Lucy Suchman

Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, Palo Alto, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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