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When professional standards are lax: the CONFIRM failure and its lessons

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 37, Issue 10
        Oct. 1994
        85 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/194313
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