Amorphous

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 74-82

  Abelson, Harold ^a   Allen, Don ^b   Coore, Daniel ^c   Hanson, Chris ^b   Rauch, Erik ^d   Sussman, Gerald Jay ^d   Weiss, Ron ^a   Homsy, George ^a   Knight Jr , Thomas F ^b   Nagpal, Radhika ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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EID: 0345851236     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/332833.332842     Document Type: Article

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