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@Article{Mills:1973:SCP,
  author =       "H. D. Mills",
  title =        "On the structure of a computing profession",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "5",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "97--101",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1973",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/953053.808087",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:45 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 3rd SIGCSE symposium on Computer
                 science education.",
  abstract =     "Computer systems are dangerously out of control in
                 several dimensions today. They are out of control with
                 respect to social integrity, with respect to fiscal
                 integrity, and with respect to cost and productivity.
                 It is a simple matter for a knowledgeable person to
                 abuse privacy and privileged information in computer
                 systems, to obtain information and to change it without
                 authorization. Such illegal acts can be used for social
                 ill or financial ill-to invade privacy, to embezzle, to
                 defraud. But where dishonesty is possible and
                 occasionally may occur, an honest and industrious lack
                 of competence has produced a staggering over-kill in
                 cost and effort in programming. This overkill cost has
                 two dimensions itself-first, in the cost of producing
                 programs, and second in the cost of the inefficiency
                 with which they control the hardware. It is not the
                 least farfetched to imagine that each of these overkill
                 costs are of the order of ten times that which is
                 possible. That is, we are paying ten times too much for
                 our programs, and they are getting only one tenth as
                 must work as they should out of the hardware.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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