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Licensing professional software engineers: seize the opportunity

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Professional organizations should be in the forefront of the ongoing discussion about licensing professional software engineers.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 7
July 2014
98 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/2622628
  • Editor:
  • Moshe Y. Vardi
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Published: 01 July 2014
Published in CACM Volume 57, Issue 7

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