Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carl E. Fulwiler, a post-doctoral student in the lab of Loeb University Professor Walter Gilbert '53, is charging that the government's report on the allegations of fraud shows that his Harvard suspension is wrong...
...Harvard laboratory researcher, given a one-year suspension last month after a University investigation found he engaged in research fraud, has been cleared of scientific misconduct by a federal government probe...
With regard to the election itself, my worst fears have come true. Despite overwhelming student support for the reforms proposed in the referendum, the election is on the verge of collapse due to the refusal of the Undergraduate Council officers to take basic precautions against fraud. Dean Jewett, when we met with the Committee on College Life back in April, I requested that the College step in and run the next vote. You replied that it would be a sad day for Harvard when the student government could not be trusted to run a referendum. I submit that today...
...cashless era of the philosophers finally arrived? So far, with every advance made by encoded plastic cards and automated billing systems, there have also been glitches or concerns about fraud and privacy. At Chemical Bank, for example, automated teller machines mistakenly deducted a total of $16 million from 100,000 customer accounts in February because of a typographical error in a single line of computer code. The bank bounced 430 checks as a result of the malfunction...
...consider the problem of fraud, which high-speed computers can unwittingly abet. According to the IRS, the number of fraudulent electronic filings doubled to 26,000 last year, at a cost to the government of nearly $54 million, as computers spat out refunds before IRS examiners could go over the returns. Such incidents have led critics to warn that the rush to automated payment systems is proceeding too fast even for computer experts. "The demands on software are far outpacing the development of software," says Dain Gary, a manager at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie-Mellon University...