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The convergence of social and technological networks

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Internet-based data on human interaction connects scientific inquiry like never before.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 11
Remembering Jim Gray
November 2008
122 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1400214
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