Re^4: Brainstorming session: detecting plagiarism

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

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

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

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Re^5: Brainstorming session: detecting plagiarism by bluto (Curate) on Jun 10, 2005 at 15:33 UTC
Say, that last one looks like it might help with our finding issues, at least on our own hard drives... ;-)) Most (all?) of these folks were from U of Arizona, IIRC (but again don't trust my memory :-) so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some collaboration. Udi Manber, who taught probably the best algorithms class I ever took, wrote or had his hands in agrep (a fast approximate grep) and the Glimpse/WebGlimpse/Harvest indexers. His old web page says he's a VP at Amazon, so perhaps he actually prospered during the dotcom saga...	[reply]

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Re^5: Brainstorming session: detecting plagiarism
by bluto (Curate) on Jun 10, 2005 at 15:33 UTC

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

Most (all?) of these folks were from U of Arizona, IIRC (but again don't trust my memory :-) so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some collaboration. Udi Manber, who taught probably the best algorithms class I ever took, wrote or had his hands in agrep (a fast approximate grep) and the Glimpse/WebGlimpse/Harvest indexers. His old web page says he's a VP at Amazon, so perhaps he actually prospered during the dotcom saga...

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