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Reaching out to the media: become a computer science ambassador

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Why computer scientists should come out from "behind the scenes" more often and work with the media to draw public attention to their fundamental innovations.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 3
        March 2011
        116 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/1897852
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