What was this former professor's name, bluto?

Having remembered looking at similar concepts a short while back (in an entirely different context), I dug up a few links which might be of interest.

In no particular order, they are:

Detection of Program Source Code Plagiarism Using Genomic Sequence Alignments Methodology

A Top-Down Method for Program Plagiarism Detecting Systems

Source Code Retrieval using Conceptual Graphs

A Theory of Uncheatable Program Plagiarism Detection and Its Practical Implementation

Todd Proebsting a compiler guy. I'm pretty sure I found a reference to plagiarism detection just the other day, but am having trouble finding it now. So either I'm going senile or Google is playing mind games with me (probably both). In any case, there is a paper at that link about recovering java source from byte code, which is mildly on-topic. Also, check out his discussion of "Proebsting's Law" for compiler optimizations.

Don't feel bad, bluto, I have many episodes when I can't find things I know I saw earlier... I usually decide the sightings were especially vivid hallucinations. ;-)

Thanks for the name tip!

Another set of links, for those interested:

On Proebsting's Law, by Kevin Scott

Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science, by Stephen Kobourov, Christian Collberg

Deducing Similarities in Java Sources from Bytecodes, by Brenda S. Baker and Udi Manber

Krakatoa: Decompilation in Java (Does Bytecode Reveal Source?), by Todd A. Proebsting and Scott A. Watterson

Finding Similar Files in a Large File System, by Udi Manber

(Say, that last one looks like it might help with our finding issues, at least on our own hard drives... ;-))

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