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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 39 , Issue 8 (August 1996) table of contents

Pages: 49 - 59

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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Ken Kahn

1748 Monticello Road, San Mateo, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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