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IS '97: model curriculum and guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in information systems

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      ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems  Volume 28, Issue 1
      IS '97 model curriculum and guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in information systems
      Winter 1996
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