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To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…
Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
Robert W. Gordon (legal history, legal profession) will retire from Yale Law School and rejoin the faculty at Stanford Law School, where he taught before moving to Yale in the 1990s.
Russell Robinson (antidiscrimination law, race and sexuality, law and psychology, constitutional law), Professor of Law at UCLA, has accepted an offer from the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, where he is presently visiting.
I first met Professor Hoy when I returned to UC Santa Cruz in Fall of ’92 to finish my undergraduate…