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  1. Justin Fisher's avatar

    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…

  5. sahpa's avatar

    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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Guggenheim Fellowship Winners for 2011

Three philosophers are winners, two with philosophy-related projects:  Brian P. Copenhaver (History & Philosophy, UCLA) for 'Explaining by picturing in Early Modern Europe' and Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (Oklahoma) for ‘Epistemic authority: an investigation of trust, authority, and autonomy in belief.'  In addition, philosopher Clancy Martin (Missouri/Kansas City) won a Guggenheim to support his fiction writing.

ADDENDUM:  Missed one:  Seyla Benhabib (Yale, Poli Sci & Philosophy) won a Fellowship for a project on 'The Contested Future of Sovereignty: International Law and Democracy.'

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