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Computing: the fourth great domain of science

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Computing is as fundamental as the physical, life, and social sciences.

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                cover image Communications of the ACM
                Communications of the ACM  Volume 52, Issue 9
                The Status of the P versus NP Problem
                September 2009
                139 pages
                ISSN:0001-0782
                EISSN:1557-7317
                DOI:10.1145/1562164
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                Association for Computing Machinery

                New York, NY, United States

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