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  1. Wynship W. Hillier, M.S.'s avatar

    I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…

  2. Justin Fisher's avatar

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

  3. Mark's avatar

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

  4. Deirdre Anne's avatar
  5. Keith Douglas's avatar

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

  6. sahpa's avatar

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

  7. Deirdre Anne's avatar

Six Philosophers Win NEH Fellowships for 2009-10

A bit belated, but here are the six philosophers whose work has won support from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the last competition:  Marcia Baron (Indiana University, Bloomington); Daniel Breazeale (University of Kentucky); Anil Gupta (University of Pittsburgh); Michael Lynch (University of Connecticut); David Reidy (University of Tennessee); and Neil Tennant (Ohio State University).

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