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The gap in CS, mulling irrational exuberance

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The Communications Web site, http://cacm.acm.org, features more than a dozen bloggers in the BLOG@CACM community. In each issue of Communications, we'll publish selected posts or excerpts.

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Carl Hewitt suggests computer science needs a reference resource, while Vijay Kumar decries intellectual dishonesty in technology forecasting.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 61, Issue 11
            November 2018
            156 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/3289258
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