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Considerable progress has been made toward the formation of a computing profession since we started tracking it in this column a decade ago.

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cover image Communications of the ACM
Communications of the ACM  Volume 54, Issue 6
June 2011
134 pages
ISSN:0001-0782
EISSN:1557-7317
DOI:10.1145/1953122
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