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The state of funding for new initiatives in computer science and engineering

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The intellectual opportunities are huge, the social benefits transforming, yet redesigning a workable funding model for CS&E research will require our collective imagination and collaboration between many IT sectors.

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                cover image Communications of the ACM
                Communications of the ACM  Volume 48, Issue 4
                Transforming China
                April 2005
                106 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/1053291
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