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Clearing the clouds away from the true potential and obstacles posed by this computing capability.

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              cover image Communications of the ACM
              Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 4
              April 2010
              131 pages
              ISSN:0001-0782
              EISSN:1557-7317
              DOI:10.1145/1721654
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