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Confronting the myth of rapid obsolescence in computing research

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 53, Issue 9

Pages 62 - 67

https://doi.org/10.1145/1810891.1810911

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Computing research ages more slowly than research in other scientific disciplines, supporting the call for parity in funding.

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September 2010

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