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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 6
    One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
    June 2009
    128 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/1516046
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