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Responsible research and innovation in the digital age

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RRI requires doing the best science for the world, not only the best science in the world.

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 5
            May 2017
            101 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/3084186
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            • Moshe Y. Vardi
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