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- 1 2 Dorf CV, from UC Davis Archived 2009-11-16 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed Nov. 18, 2009
- ↑ IEEE Fellows Directory Archived 2009-07-07 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed Nov. 18, 2009.
- ↑ ASEE Fellows list. Accessed Nov. 18, 2009.
- ↑ Profile of Dorf from the UC Davis School of Management Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed Nov. 18, 2009.
- ↑ Dorf profile from the UC Davis ECE website Archived 2009-12-03 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed Nov. 18, 2009.
- ↑ Worldcat record for Technology Ventures: From Ideas to Enterprise
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