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Tracing the early days of ACM---its landmark accomplishments, its challenges, its goals---in celebration of its first 60 years.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 50, Issue 5
          ACM at sixty: a look back in time
          May 2007
          111 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/1230819
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