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In this short story, set six decades in the future, a data investigator named Richie Boss takes a job from a woman who is writing a biography of her great-grandmother. His investigations trigger a series of events that creates a new world for sentient computer programs.
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Dedicated to Brian Wilson Kernighan and Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie Although I never met them, they taught me how to code
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Joel, M. (2013). Richie Boss: Private Investigator Manager. In: Sim, S.E., Gallardo-Valencia, R.E. (eds) Finding Source Code on the Web for Remix and Reuse. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6596-6_17
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