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Examining computers & society 1970--2008

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This paper is a review of 39 years of SIGCAS publications in Computers and Society, the newsletter of ACM SIGCAS. The publication is archived in the ACM Digital Library [12]. I set out to examine SIGCAS through its publications.

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      cover image ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
      ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society  Volume 39, Issue 2
      Celebrating SIGCAS' 40th Anniversary - Interviews with Past SIGCAS Award Recipients
      September 2009
      33 pages
      ISSN:0095-2737
      DOI:10.1145/1621918
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