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Computing within limits

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Bill Tomlinson,

Donald J. Patterson,

Daniel Pargman,

Barath Raghavan,

Birgit PenzenstadlerAuthors Info & Claims

Communications of the ACM, Volume 61, Issue 10

Pages 86 - 93

https://doi.org/10.1145/3183582

Published: 26 September 2018 Publication History

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The future of computing research relies on addressing an array of limitations on a planetary scale.

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Communications of the ACM Volume 61, Issue 10

October 2018

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DOI:10.1145/3281635

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