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We are seeking articles that enhance practitioners' understanding of computing and enhance their job performance. If you could see your colleagues enthusiastically recommending an article to their friends and coworkers, we would love to publish it! We are soliciting articles for CACM's new Practice section! What We're Looking for The scope of this section includes technical advances, development practices, organizational structures, examples of successful systems, and other topics of interest to computing practitioners. Articles need not be tied to academic or industrial research. However, they should be of interest to a significant number of practitioners. Highly specialized articles or articles demanding a deep technical background are unlikely to pass this test. Specs An article is limited to 10 pages, roughly equivalent to 6,000 words. A submission may have previously been posted on a blog or online but not published elsewhere. 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