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These programs are also essential when relying on suspicion alone is simply not feasible—for example, in large courses where professors rarely can get acquainted with their students’ writing styles. University of Virginia Professor of Physics Louis R. Bloomfield, who developed his own version of anti-plagiarism software, used this program to successfully detect more than 40 instances of cheating in a large introductory course. Many of the students caught by his software were subsequently expelled; without the use of Bloomfield’s software these students, who were clearly guilty of academic dishonesty, would have...
...Professor of Physics Louis A. Bloomfield, whose software led to the dismissal of 48 individuals at the school, emphasizes that a rash of cheating has accompanied the rise of the Internet...
...It’s kind of an arms race,” Bloomfield says. “Fifty years ago, it was quite a challenge to plagiarize...then there was the Web...and things came rolling right into your desktop. What’s now happening is that the detection end is catching...
...Bloomfield has made his program, which has the capability to search the Internet for close matches to a student’s writing, available for free on the Internet, and he says it’s been downloaded about 10,000 times...
...bumper crowd of little kids, with parents in the hallway trying to get a glimpse of them," recalls Rob Leider, assistant principal at the school, West Bloomfield High. His heart went out to these youngsters: "They seemed pretty studious. But when they finished and came out of the rooms, they were little kids lost in a big building, looking for their mothers...