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Is computer science truly scientific?

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Reflections on the (experimental) scientific method in computer science.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 53, Issue 7
July 2010
133 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1785414
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