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For better or worse, benchmarks shape a field: technical perspective

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 55, Issue 7
      July 2012
      120 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/2209249
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