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    To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…

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    Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…

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    Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…

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    Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.

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2005 Guggenheim Fellowship Winners Announced

Here.  Only one law professor won support for his work this year:  M. Gregg Bloche (Georgetown).  (My sense is that not many law faculty apply for this support.)  Philosophers whose work is being recognized and supported are Eckart Forster (Johns Hopkins) and Gerald Postema (North Carolina).  (Having written in support of Professor Postema’s application, let me add, on a personal note, that I am particularly pleased to see that his excellent work won support.)

Of local interest, UT Austin historian Alison Frazier also won a Guggenheim this year.

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