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Reflections on the intersection of computing and the humanities.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 9
September 2014
94 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2663191
  • Editor:
  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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