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The incredible shrinking pipeline

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 40 , Issue 10 (October 1997) table of contents

Pages: 103 - 110

Year of Publication: 1997

ISSN:0001-0782

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Tracy Camp

Univ. of Alabama

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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