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Computing is history

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Reflections on the past to inform the future.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 58, Issue 10
          October 2015
          87 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2830674
          • Editor:
          • Moshe Y. Vardi
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