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Standing on distributed shoulders of giants

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Farsighted physicists of yore were danged smart!

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 59, Issue 6
      June 2016
      106 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/2942427
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      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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