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Five deep questions in computing

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Even if they seem unanswerable, just trying to answer them will advance the field's scientific foundations and help engineer the systems we can only imagine.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 1
              50th anniversary issue: 1958 - 2008
              January 2008
              106 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1327452
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