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According to Alexander S. Aiken, associate professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, high-tech cheating in computer science departments was a precursor to the ways the Internet is now being used to cheat in the humanities...
Over the last several years, online paper mills and other cheating aides have sprung up on the Internet, offering custom-written papers and essays at as much as $20 a page--a phenomenon with which Aiken says humanities departments will soon have to grapple...
...Aiken designed a similar detection system for Berkeley called Measure of Software Similarity (MOSS...
...computer sciences have had this problem for a long time," says Aiken, who was inspired to develop MOSS after finding that plagiarism tools available at that time were inadequate to keep up with common code-copying...
...Aiken says that MOSS is used routinely in Berkeley's introductory as well as junior and senior computer science courses...