Word: moss
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...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...
...patrols to guard elephants, but the patrols can't be everywhere all the time. Anecdotal evidence suggests that poaching has increased since last year's ivory sales. "Even if elephant numbers have recovered, there is nothing new since the horrors of the '80s to stop the ivory trade," says Moss. "Laws are just as lax, African wildlife departments are even more poorly funded, and corruption is worse...
...Moss's mission as an elephant advocate often takes her away from the Amboseli fieldwork she loves so much. She spends about three-quarters of her time writing, giving lectures in the U.S. and Britain and raising money, much of which comes from the African Wildlife Foundation in Washington. An updated version of Elephant Memories should be out in May, and she's working on a volume of papers by scientists who have studied the Amboseli elephants. She is also trying to build a $5 million to $7 million endowment, the African Elephant Conservation Trust. That would help give elephants...
...night in camp, after a shower in a wooden cubicle offering a stunning view of the stars, Moss contemplates why she never tires of watching elephants. "If you sit at an airport and watch the people, it's interesting but only two-dimensional. If you sit and watch people you know, say, at a family gathering, you see the uncle who lent some money but was never paid back, and you know all the family quarrels. It becomes so three-dimensional when you have all that history, so much more interesting. I don't think I could ever leave this...