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Wanted: toolsmiths

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Seeking to use software, hardware, and algorithmic ingenuity to create unique domain-independent instruments.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 4
      April 2017
      86 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3069398
      • Editor:
      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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