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Benjamin C. Pierce,

Michael Hicks,

Crista Lopes,

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 63, Issue 3

Pages 35 - 37

https://doi.org/10.1145/3380445

Published: 24 February 2020 Publication History

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Balancing sustainability and science.

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Conferences in an era of expensive carbon
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms

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March 2020

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