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Detailed BiographyRevised: 8 December 2002 |
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Detailed BiographyRevised: 8 December 2002 |
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As a Senior Engineering Specialist, Rick was a member of the department involved in the creation of the software for the Mission Control and Bus Interface Unit computers of the C-130J aircraft. His department also creates the software for the Ground-Based Data System of the C-130J aircraft.
Rick plays the role as a Software Process Engineer. He is involved in defining the software processes and procedures which govern the development of the software in his department. He is also active in the Reuse (now Product Line) Working Group of the Lockheed Martin corporate Software Subcouncil (Rick was co-chair of the Reuse/COTS/Product Line track of the Lockheed Martin Joint Symposium 2001).
Rick leads the development of the C-130J Software Development Plan and Handbook (with Electronic Process Guide) as a part of the consolidation effort involving the merge of three Lockheed Martin companies (the Skunk Works in Palmdale, CA, LM Aeronautics Systems in Marietta, GA, and LM Tactical Aircraft Systems in Ft. Worth, TX) into one company (LM Aeronautics, or LM Aero, headquartered in Ft. Worth, TX).
Rick develops and maintains the CMM Level 4 Data Collection and Metrics Generation System used by the C-130J Software Integrated Product Team to measure their performance and report metrics for use by the team and headquarters in Ft. Worth. This system has been extended to include metrics generation for the Contractor Performance and Reporting System (CPARS) used by the United States Air Force to assess contractor performance in software development activities.
Rick develops and maintains the Hercules Improvement Program for Software/Systems data collection client, which is a program distributed to Lockheed Martin customers world-wide that collects information from them on suggested improvements to the C-130J aircraft and facilitates collaboration between the customers and Lockheed Martin. Version 1.0.0 was released in January 2002 at the customer's meeting in Australia.
Rick supports the Software Engineering Retraining Program (SERP), in which Lockheed Martin employees with engineering degrees other than Computer Science (such as Electrical, Mechanical, and Aerospace) are retrained in Software Engineering. Rick is the C-130J Software IPT representative and gives invited lectures. The program is run out of Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA.
Rick designed, developed, and maintained the C-130J Software IPT websites within Lockheed Martin (over 30,000 web pages). These include the main website, an Education website, and a Reuse website. In addition, three external websites at Kennesaw State University also support the C-130J Software IPT activities: the Ada and Software Engineering Library, Rick's education website (as an Adjunct Professor), and the Software Development and Engineering Special Interest Group.
Rick manages a Windows 2000 PC network for use by the Ground-Based Data System operation of the C-130J Software IPT. This network includes a Windows 2000 Advanced Server (IBM Netfinity hardware) and several Windows 2000 Professional clients (IBM NetVista hardware).
Rick teaches in-house courses in Ada95, C++, the CMM, and web publishing to students from various projects within Lockheed Martin, including the C-130J, C-27J, C-5AMP, and F-22.
Rick runs a Brown Bag lunch education program for the C-130J Software IPT, in which he gives presentations on a wide variety of topics to members of the IPT.
As the lead of the Software Development and Engineering Special Interest Group of the Atlanta PC User's Group, Rick plans the meetings, arranges guest speakers, arranges product demonstrations and giveaways, and gives presentations. This group is an additional educational vehicle for Lockheed Martin employees that involves many other companies in the Atlanta area.
Lockheed Martin does not have a direct affiliation with the CDROMs produced by Walnut Creek CDROM that Rick edits. Rick has disclosed this activity to Lockheed Martin, and Lockheed Martin is in no way responsible for it.
As an Adjunct Professor, Rick consults with the faculty on issues of mutual interest. Rick has an office on campus in Building J and teaches SWE 2623, Software Systems Requirements.
As the lead of the Software Development and Engineering Special Interest (SDE SIG) Group of the Atlanta PC User's Group (ATLPCUG), Rick plans the meetings, arranges guest speakers, arranges product demonstrations and giveaways, and gives presentations and tutorials. He also manages the SDE SIG website at Kennesaw State University.
As an Adjunct Professor, Rick consults with the faculty on issues of mutual interest. Rick teaches CSIS 1020, Introduction to Programming in Visual Basic. Rick has taught CSIS 1020 to more than 300 students to date.
Rick has submitted/had published the various versions of his CSIS 1020 class in the Microsoft Academic Cooperative. He has also written articles on Visual Basic for their Main Function newsletter.
As part of his work in Reuse Tapestry, Rick continues to maintain the Ada and Software Engineering Library (ASE2). The user population is world-wide, but this work is done primarily to support the needs of ACM/SIGAda, Lockheed Martin, and Rick's activities with Kennesaw State University and the Atlanta PC User's Group.
As a full-time member of the faculty of the Software Engineering Department at Monmouth University, Rick taught courses in software engineering with the rank of Assistant Professor. His courses include:
Students in the Software Engineering Department are largely from local industry, such as the Federal Aviation Administration's Technical Center, AT&T Bell Labs, Bell Atlantic, Computer Science Corporation, The MITRE Corporation, Telos Corporation, Prudential Insurance, Continental Insurance, and Fort Monmouth.
Rick was the Principal Investigator of a project on exploring software reuse in the global theatre. Through this project, he manages the Public Ada Library (PAL) - see references below for more information on the PAL. This work is through the Center for Technology Development and Transfer at Monmouth University and is funded by the Defense Information Systems Agency (over $200K has been allocated to this project over a four-year period).
Rick was the Principal Investigator for the Reuse Tapestry project, which includes the Source Code Analysis Tool Construction (SCATC) domain-specific kit and a number of Ada83, Ada95, C, and C++ source code analysis tools built using this kit. Rick was also the author of the Generic Web-based Reuse Library (GWRL), a family of programs created using the SCATC kit which creates web pages, including a table of contents and index, from asset descriptor files.
Rick was the Project Lead for over a year on the Monmouth University part of the Computer-Aided Prototyping System (CAPS) project, managing a team of other faculty members and several graduate students. This work is through the Center for Technology Development and Transfer at Monmouth University and is funded by the Department of Defense, Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Program (funding for the Monmouth University part was around $140K).
Rick was the thesis advisor for a number of graduate students on a variety of topics, ranging from topics such as tradeoffs in parallel computations using VHDL to topics such as coming up with a documentation and publishing scheme for reusable software assets. Rick is developing a larger project, tentatively entitled The Reuse Tapestry project, which is a common source for a large number of thesis projects in the Software Engineering Department that address a wide variety of issues pertaining to effective reuse of software assets, including documentation, architectures, designs, as well as code.
As a member of the technical staff at the MITRE Corporation, Rick has ported the Terrain Evaluation Module (TEM) software onto an HP-UX workstation, performed a metrics analysis on it, and given a demonstration of it.
Rick designed and coded an Ada-oriented System Dependency Analyzer (SDA) tool and an Ada-oriented Common Code Recognizer (CCR) tool, which have been used to analyze over thirty million lines of Ada source code on nine Army projects. He also designed and implemented a C System Dependency Analyzer tool (in Ada) to perform a similar type of analysis (see bibliography below for references to papers on these tools).
Rick consulted on an Ada83 to Ada9X Compatibility Analysis Tool, designed and implemented an early version of an Ada Tasking Analysis Tool, and wrote the Reuse Implementation Plan and Policies and Procedures document for the Armament Software Engineering Center Reuse Library.
Rick has performed an analysis of the software in the Army's STACCS project and a study of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) of the Open Software Foundation (OSF).
Rick was the principal advisor on software reuse to the Advanced Field Artillery System (AFAS) and Future Armored Resupply Vehicle (FARV) projects at Picatinny Arsenal, on which he has authored two MITRE Technical Reports (MTRs), a MITRE Working Paper, and several presentations and Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs). Rick has written the Reuse Implementation Plan for AFAS and FARV.
Rick was co-chair of ACM/SIGAda's Education Working Group and a member of the ACM/SIGAda Ada Awareness Group, and his activities were funded by MITRE.
As an Adjunct Professor, Rick has taught courses in Software Reuse and Ada95 to selected personnel at Fort Monmouth through a contract to Monmouth University, to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students, and to members of the technical community in the Fort Monmouth area (including AT&T Bell Labs at Holmdel and Continental Insurance near Eatontown). Rick is now teaching graduate courses in Software Reuse to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students.
As an Adjunct Professor, Rick has taught courses in Object-Oriented Analysis, Object-Oriented Design, Software Reuse and Software Tool Construction to selected personnel at Fort Monmouth through a contract to Monmouth College and to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students. Rick has taught graduate courses in object-oriented design, software reuse, and software tool construction to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students.
As the manager and founder of the Public Ada Library, Rick was the Principal Investigator on a contract from the Ada Joint Program Office under the DoD's Defense Information Systems Agency. The Public Ada Library is a major Ada-oriented information source on the Internet (the backbone of the National Information Infrastructure), providing information and Ada source code and tools to over 600 corporations and 450 educational institutions in the United States as well has several hundred organizations in over 50 other countries.
As a member of the Federal Advisory Board on Ada (the Ada Board), Rick acts as an appointed consultant and advisor to the Director of the Ada Joint Program Office. This position is an appointment, and participation is on a voluntary, non-funded basis. As a member of this board, Rick is classified as an employee of the federal government.
Rick was awarded a contract during this period to develop an Ada-oriented Software Engineering course for the federal government. This course has been completed and is intended to be distributed by the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, to universities in the United States.
As an Adjunct Professor at the university, Rick taught courses in Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Design, and Object-Oriented Programming to over 100 senior undergraduate and graduate students. The courses had a basis in the Ada and C++ programming languages.
As the manager of the DOD's Ada Software Repository on the SIMTEL20 host computer at White Sands, Mr. Conn managed and maintained the repository as a part-time job sponsored by the U.S. Army Information Systems Command and the Software Technology for Adaptable, Reliable Systems (STARS) program office. The Ada Software Repository contains over 80 million bytes of Ada source code and is accessed by an estimated 10,000 users. Rick did this work over the Internet from Cincinnati, Ohio.
As a software engineer for the Advanced Engineering Technology Department, Software Engineering Section, Rick managed the IR&D 9.44E and 9.44(10) Ada and VHDL (VHSIC, Very High Speed Integrated Circuit, Hardware Description Language) research projects. He performed Ada-related and software engineering-related applied research for aircraft engine controls, evaluated Ada compilers and tools for use in engine control software development, provided support to GE corporate for the STARS Competing Primes Lead Contract proposal, and was a consultant and engineer for the GE-proprietary BEACON graphical programming language tool. He also consulted on a wide variety of military, commercial, and internal projects, including projects in the areas of engine controls, workstation graphical user interface (GUI) software, graphical programming language development, and workstation selection and administration. He issued and managed research grants to the University of Cincinnati for table lookup chip development, Ada compiler evaluation, and an engine model on-a- chip feasibility study. Finally, Rick taught in-house courses in Ada (introductory, advanced, and manager- oriented), C (introductory and advanced), and C++.
During his period of self-employment, Rick completed his work on the ZCPR3 operating and software development system. Used by over 60 Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) in Silicon Valley, ZCPR3 was marketed by his agent, Echelon, Inc. Rick also wrote and completed four books and numerous magazine articles during this period.
During this time, Rick founded and managed the Ada Software Repository at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on a voluntary, non-funded basis. The Ada Software Repository was initially populated by several sources, including the World-Wide Military Command and Control System (WWMCCS) Information Systems (WIS) program office.
As a software design engineer in the Ada Technology Branch of Texas Instruments, Rick was a technical consultant and a software designer and coder on several government projects, including an Ada toolset for WWMCCS and a VHDL simulator. Rick designed and implemented the TI Ada Program Design Language.
As the author of the Z80 Command Processor Replacement Operating and Software Development System, Mr. Conn designed and implemented ZCPR1, ZCPR2, and ZCPR3. The work entailed design and implementation of the operating system, the tool suite that supported the operating system, the reusable components library used to implement the tools, the communications system, and the shells (user interfaces). ZCPR3 was marketed by Echelon, Inc., his agent in Silicon Valley to over 60 Original Equipment Manufacturers (NEC being the most notable) for incorporation into their products. ZCPR3 was featured in many magazines at the time, including Computer Language, Dr. Dobbs Journal, and Byte magazine.
As a Computer Scientist (GS-12), Rick was a technical consultant on several DOD satellite projects ranging in value from $100M to $10B. He acted as an Ada consultant and evaluated contract proposals and monitored projects at contractor facilities. He was also a consultant on the Defense Data Network (DDN).
As an instructor, Captain Conn (US Army) taught courses in operating systems and microprocessors and performed research in microcomputer-based operating systems. He also designed the microcomputer laboratory for the Institute and selected and designed the microcomputer laboratory courses.
As a technical consultant, 1LT Conn (US Army) consulted on several government satellite projects ranging from $10M to $3B on issues relating to Ada and embedded computers in general. He was a member of the language evaluation team for the Ada programming language (then called DOD-1), and he received a grant for research into microcomputer operating systems. He worked as a team member in the preparation of project reports under the Review, Evaluation, and Command Assessment of Programs (RECAP) project to the U.S. Congress.
As a U.S. Army Fellow, 2LT Conn (US Army) obtained a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois.
Rick taught courses in operating systems and microprocessors as a member of the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (May 1980 to April 1982).
Rick taught courses in Ada, Advanced Ada, Ada for Managers, C, Advanced C, and C++ as a certified instructor in the after-hours program sponsored by the Human Resources Department at General Electric Aircraft Engines, Cincinnati, Ohio (February 1987 to May 1992). He designed and taught these courses and established standards for computer programming courses taught at General Electric Aircraft Engines.
Rick taught courses in Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Design, and Object-Oriented Programming as an Adjunct Professor for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio (January 1990 to September 1992). He designed and taught these courses to undergraduate and graduate students. He and Dr. Harold Carter also won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through the DOD Ada Joint Program Office to develop an Ada-oriented Software Engineering course, which he completed in September 1992.
Rick taught courses in Object-Oriented Analysis, Object-Oriented Design, and Software Tool Construction as a member of the faculty of the School of Information Sciences and Technology, Department of Telematics, Monmouth College, West Long Branch, New Jersey (January 1993 to 1994).
As an Adjunct Professor in the Software Engineering Department of Monmouth University, Rick has taught courses in Software Reuse and Ada95 to selected personnel at Fort Monmouth through a contract to Monmouth University, to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students, and to members of the technical community in the Fort Monmouth area (including AT&T Bell Labs at Holmdel and Continental Insurance near Eatontown). Rick taught graduate courses in Software Reuse to senior-level undergraduate and graduate students (March 1995 to August 1995). Rick also advised nine thesis students in three projects.
As an Assistant Professor in the Software Engineering Department of Monmouth University (a full-time position), Rick has taught courses in the Principles of Software Engineering, Software Reuse, Software Quality and Testing, and ANSI C. He also advised a number of thesis students.
As a Software Process Engineer at Lockheed Martin, Rick taught courses in Ada95, C++, and Web Publishing to other Lockheed Martin personnel. There were both short and long (14 week) versions of the Ada95 and C++ courses.
| Title | Event (What, Where, When) | Audience | Notes |
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| C-130J Softwware Development Plan and Handbook by Richard Conn (Principal Author) and members of the C-130J Software Integrated Product Team, 2001 - 2002 | Distributed on CDROM to LM Aero Headquarters in Ft Worth, TX, and reviewed by Directors of Software Engineering of the major Lockheed Martin business groups | Lockheed Martin software engineers and management | Hypertext document and website containing over 670 files (over 420 in HTML) and 8,600 links to resources throughout Lockheed Martin and the Internet |
| Developing Software Engineers at the C-130J Software Factory by Richard Conn, IEEE Software Magazine, September/October 2002 Issue | IEEE Software is published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Unlimited Distribution | This article was selected for the Special Issue on Educating Software Professionals by the Guest Editors, Dr. Watts Humphrey of the Software Engineering Institute and Dr. Thomas Hilburn of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. It illustrates the need for cooperation between industry and academia. |
| C-130J Data Collection System Version 3 by Richard Conn, 2002 Lockheed Martin Mission Critical Enterprise System conference, Orlando, FL; 19 April 2002 (tentative) | Presentation is open to all attendees | This is a corporate-wide conference with representatives from all the Lockheed Martin companies | Presents DCS3 as a domain-specific kit for building web-based data collection applications, particularly in support of CMM Level 4 and 5 activities |
| Introducing Software Engineering with Visual Basic by Richard Conn, 2002 ACM Computer Science Education Conference, Cincinnati, OH; 1 March 2002 (tentative) | Presentation is open to all attendees | This is the annual conference of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education | Presentation was invited by Microsoft, and is given at the Microsoft Pavilion; presentation is a mixture of lecture/lab and highlights the approach taken in the CSIS 1020 course on "Programming with Visual Basic" taught by Richard Conn as an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science and Information Systems Department at Kennesaw State University |
| Electronic Process Guides and the C-130J Software IPT by Richard Conn, Third Annual Watts Humphrey Lecture Series - Software Engineering in the 21st Century - invited presentation; 16 November 2001 | Presentation was open to all attendees; it was previously given at the Lockheed Martin Joint Symposium in June 2001 | Unlimited Distribution; Dr. Watts Humphrey of the SEI | An overview of the C-130J Electronic Process Guides |
| Avionics Modernization and the C-130J Software Factory by Richard Conn, Steve Traub, and Steve Chung, Crosstalk Magazine, September 2001 | Article in Crosstalk, the Journal for Defense Software Engineering, published by the Air Force Software Technology Support Center, Hill AFB | Unlimited Distribution | Overview of the C-130J Software IPT and its approach to software development; statistics and lessons learned included. |
| C-130J Data Collection System - A Domain-Specific Kit for Building a Digital Nervous System by Richard Conn, presentation at the Lockheed Martin Joint Symposium 2001, 5 June 2001 | Presentation was open to all conference attendees, part of the Reuse/COTS/Product Line Track | Unlimited Distribution | An overview of C-130J Software Electronic Process Guides and the Digital Nervous System that back them |
| A Reuse-Driven Software Engineering Paradigm Exploiting Microsoft Technologies
by Richard Conn, tutorial at the Lockheed Martin Joint Symposium 2001, 3 June 2001 Presented a second time in Fall 2001 at a Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Share Session (Netmeeting broadcast to sites in Palmdale, CA, Ft Worth, TX, and Marietta, GA) |
Tutorial was open to all conference attendees, part of the Reuse/COTS/Product Line Track; I also served as co-chair of the Reuse/COTS/Product Line track | Unlimited Distribution | A tutorial on how to develop software using Microsoft Technologies, such as Visual Studio, in a manner which exploits reuse-driven software engineering approaches |
| Ada and Software Engineering Resources by Richard Conn, presentation at the SIGAda 2000 Conference, 12-16 November 2000 | Presentation was open to all conference attendees; available on the KSU website | Unlimited Distribution | An overview of the ASE2 Library and the Ada and Software Engineering Community Resources |
| Process Guides by Richard Conn, presentation at the Southeastern Quality Conference, 30-31 October 2000 | Presentation was open to all conference attendees; presentation is now on KSU website | Unlimited Distribution; Dr. Mark Paulk of the SEI | An overview of Process Guides with emphasis on the C-130J Software IPT implementation |
| Lockheed Martin COTS/Reuse 2000 Symposium with a presentation entitled Reuse Tapestry Update and a presentation entitled Building a Reusable Infrastructure to Support CMM Level 4 and 5 Activities on the Web (both related to C-130J Software IPT activities by Richard Conn) | Lockheed Martin COTS/Reuse 2000 Symposium, Goodyear, AZ, 23-25 January 2000 | Unlimited Distribution | An internal Lockheed Martin conference |
| Electronic Interchange Meetings on Electronic Process Guides | Presentations at Lockheed Martin, Marietta, 13 January 2000 | Lockheed Martin Personnel, Dr. Mark Kellner of the SEI | Interchanges between C-130J and other LM projects and Dr. Kellner |
| What Should a Software Engineer Know? by Richard Conn | SEPD Reporter Newsletter, September 1999 | Unlimited Distribution | An overview of the ACM/IEEE/SEI/etc effort to define a Software Engineering Body of Knowledge |
| A Brief Introduction to the C-130J Software IPT CMM Level 4 Data Collection System by Richard Conn | SEPD Reporter Newsletter, September 1999 | Unlimited Distribution | A brief overview of the DCS with some key URLs |
| C-130J Software Development by Richard Conn | Lockheed Martin Reuse '98 Conference, Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems, Fort Worth, Texas, 30 November - 2 December 1998 | About 75 attendees from 16 Lockheed Martin sites | Attendees included key personnel from Lockheed Martin Corporate Headquarters in Bethesda, MD |
| Attributes of a Process Description by Richard Conn | SEPD Reporter Newsletter, June 1999 | Lockheed Martin personnel | Describes the attributes of the process descriptions found on the C-130J Software IPT web site |
| Month, Year | ISBN | Notes/Special Edition Title |
| November, 1993 | None | First Ada CDROM (date approximate) |
| March, 1994 | None | 2 CDROMs created - one for Mac, one for all others |
| July, 1994 | 1-57176-024-5 | - |
| November, 1994 | 1-57176-038-5 | First of the 2-CDROM Sets |
| March, 1995 | 1-57176-076-8 | - |
| June, 1995 | 1-57176-076-8 | - |
| September, 1995 | 1-57176-076-8 | - |
| November, 1995 | 1-57176-076-8 | Tri-Ada 95 Special Edition |
| February, 1996 | 1-57176-076-8 | 1996 ACM Computing Week and 1996 DoD Software Technology Conference Special Edition |
| August, 1996 | 1-57176-076-8 | - |
| December, 1996 | 1-57176-076-8 | Tri-Ada 96 Special Edition |
| March, 1997 | 1-57176-076-8 | 1997 ACM Computing Week and 1997 DoD Software Technology Conference Special Edition |
| June, 1997 | 1-57176-076-8 | ACM/SIGAda's July/August Issue of Ada Letters Magazine Special Edition |
| November, 1997 | 1-57176-076-8 | Tri-Ada 97 and Ada-Belgium 97 Special Edition Also distributed at 29th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education |
| April, 1998 | 1-57176-076-8 | 1998 DoD Software Technology Conference |
| Month, Year | ISBN | Notes/Special Edition Title |
| February, 1998 | 1-57176-221-3 | Pilot 1 SDE CDROM Special Edition for:
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| Month, Year | ISBN | Notes/Special Edition Title |
| November, 1998 | 1-57176-235-3 | 1st ASE CDROM (Baseline 1) Special Edition for:
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| May, 1999 | 1-57176-235-3 | 2nd ASE CDROM (Update 1 to Baseline 1) Update Disc ASE01_03 |
| October, 1999 | 1-57176-235-3 | 3rd ASE CDROM (Update 2 to Baseline 1) Update Discs ASE01_04 and ASE01_05 Special Edition for:
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| May, 2000 | 1-57176-235-3 | 4th ASE CDROM (Update 3 to Baseline 1) Update Discs ASE01_06 and ASE01_07 Special Edition for:
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| November, 2000 | 1-57176-282-5 | 5th ASE CDROM (ASE2, the 2nd Baseline) Special Edition for:
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This list does not include numerous magazine articles.