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The metropolis model a new logic for development of crowdsourced systems

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It takes a city of developers to build a big system that is never done.

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Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 7
Barbara Liskov: ACM's A.M. Turing Award Winner
July 2009
141 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1538788
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