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What next?: A dozen information-technology research goals

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Volume 50 , Issue 1 (January 2003) table of contents

Pages: 41 - 57

Year of Publication: 2003

ISSN:0004-5411

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Jim Gray

Microsoft Research, San Francisco, California

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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