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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 44 , Issue 2 (February 2001) table of contents

Pages: 15 - 19

Year of Publication: 2001

ISSN:0001-0782

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Peter J. Denning

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	Denning, P. Computing the profession. Educom Review 33 (Nov.-Dec. 1998), 26-30, 46-59.
	2	Neville Holmes, Fashioning a Foundation for the Computing Profession, Computer, v.33 n.7, p.97-98, July 2000 [doi>10.1109/2.869383]

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	William Mitchell, Is software engineering for everyone?, Proceedings of the 2nd annual conference on Mid-south college computing, p.53-64, April 02-03, 2004, Little Rock, Arkansas
	Manimegalai M. Subramaniam, The emergence of IT degree programs: when did it happen?, Proceedings of the 6th conference on Information technology education, October 20-22, 2005, Newark, NJ, USA
	Wendy Cukier, Constructing the IT skills shortage in Canada: the implications of institutional discourse and practices for the participation of women, Proceedings of the 2003 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research: Freedom in Philadelphia--leveraging differences and diversity in the IT workforce, April 10-12, 2003, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	Peter J. Denning, The profession of IT Voices of computing, Communications of the ACM, v.51 n.8, August 2008
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