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Stodgy by design, and the notion of `dumbing up'

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Communications of the ACM Volume 45 Issue 2February 2002pp 25–27https://doi.org/10.1145/503124.503139

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Depending on your career roots, it seems editorial preferences may focus less on what is said and more on how it's said.

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Stodgy by design, and the notion of `dumbing up'
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Communications of the ACM Volume 45, Issue 2
Ontology: different ways of representing the same concept
February 2002
98 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/503124
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