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Monday, September 16, 2002
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/09/13/1031608319107.html Computer crackdown on university cheats Peter Munro NSW universities are set to crackdown on cheating university students who copy from the internet for their assignments - trapping them with purpose-built software instead of the memories of their professors. Some departments at the University of Technology, Sydney, have been trialling US software to catch out students who use the internet to plagiarise material. Professor Shirley Alexander, from the Interactive Media and Learning department, who has been trying the new method for a year, said in one case the software - which highlights plagiarised passages in different colours - detected one student had cheated 25 times in one essay....
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