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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 44 , Issue 10 (October 2001) table of contents

Pages: 21 - 22

Year of Publication: 2001

ISSN:0001-0782

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Keith Devlin

Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI), Stanford University

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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