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In the burgeoning academic plagiarism war, fueled by controversies over integrity, diversity initiatives, and publish-or-perish pressures, battle lines are drawn. Continue reading to learn more.
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, president of Stanford University, resigned in August after an investigation found serious flaws in studies he had supervised going back decades. Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, resigned as the new year dawned, under mounting accusations of plagiarism going back to her graduate student days. Then, Neri Oxman, a former star professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was accused of plagiarizing from Wikipedia, among other sources, in her dissertation. H
Schools need transparent, equitable standards of review.
Computer programs that can compare one document with millions of others and spot similar words, phrases, or sentences are being used to look for instances of plagiarism. But they have their limitations.
As scientific breakthroughs go, the one announced last March by a team from the University of Rochester was especially eye-opening. Led by physicist/engineer Ranga P. Dias, they reported in an