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Collaborative plaigiarism detection

I have been pondering the possibility of creating a distributed and collaborative system to detect plagiarism in assignments submitted by students in universities. No one can really trust the effectiveness of automated systems such as turnitin.com for as reliable as it is: its far from a perfect system. The lack of trust in automated systems results in graders having to manually ‘double-check’ the results to be sure that the results are reliable. What I propose is a collaborative plagiarism detection system where assignments are checked twice: once by a computer thereby eliminating clear insistences of lack of plagiarism and a second check made collaboratively by those who use such system.

The system will work by allowing graders to check as many sets of assignments as they wish(thought by the automated part of the system to be potentially plagiarized) and decided if it is plagiarized in their opinion or not. The key here however is that the sets shown to the grader should be no longer than a few lines long, this will eliminate bias based on content surrounding the scene of the potential crime. The effectiveness of this will be based on participation. The more graders that exist and the more sets that are evaluated the more effective it will be. Due to the short nature of each set it should take a very short moment for one to evaluate it and therefor creating a fast speedy system for identifying cheaters.

Computer Science Characters

There are 3 types of people who I horribly dislike and annoy me to the end of the earth in my computer science class.

• The Whiny They complaint about the silliest things. You know, if you just do it right maybe you would get more points. This is a science, meaning: EXACT. No, your answer which is slight inexact does not cut it it buddy!
• The Cheater These make me furious. If you are a senior and still cheat and have no clue what is going on in the class its probably a hint that you do not deserve the diploma. I really wonder what they will do in life. They probably think computer science means automatic income. Sorry buddy, that ended in 2000.

• The Kiss Up Sorry, no one cares if you know or ask stupid questions. Who computer science was discussion oriented? Buddy, leave kissing up with your pre-school teacher.

My campus is a nuclear reactor

Apparently, and I kid you not, my campus was originally designed to be a nuclear power plant (in Pakistan). It seems like it was easier to reuse a previous plan rather than make a new one and that is how my school does indeed resemble some communist power plant that you would see in James Bond movie. If this wasn’t cool enough, the nuclear plant does exist, and it does indeed look exactly like my school (give or take) with the only modification being the core of the plant which sits where my school has the fountain. Chilling fact if you ask me.