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Cheats & Smart Shelves From Plagiarism to Retail Industry
• Cheats & Smart Shelves An australian university will be using internet robots to patrol the web checking for plagiarism in exams. This is text-based pattern recognition. As a website administrator I find this quite annoying, and I hope this doesn't apply to scientific disciplines. Maybe their budget would be better spent focusing on setting more creative exams, or finding courses that don't involve regurgitation of knowledge. SMH - Internet 'Robots' to Catch Uni Cheats USA Today - Educators Go High-tech to Check Essay Exams Globe Technology discusses the use of sensor arrays within smart homes -- Intel Creating Smart System to Keep Old Folks at Home. The purpose is to provide more independence to those in cognitive decline. RSS.com reports of the same kind of AI technology, applied to the retail industry; Major Retailers to Test "Smart Shelves". The technology would allow supermarkets a more efficient shop management, as well as better stocking and ordering of goods. Finally, BBC News has an article about the advent of biometric technology -- Faces and Eyes Rival Passwords. | NewsCaster 78 posts. Friday 31 January, 20:46 Reply
• Copying the copiers Perhaps if a student just coppied something word for word that would clearly be cheating, but actually we are all plagarists. We all copy eachother relentlessly - in fact its one of the key factors by which societies progress. The purpose of schools and universities is primarily to encourage the copying of ideas from older generations to newer ones. Musicians regularly copy and sample eachother. Scientists base their ideas on those of others, even to the extent that they have to cite the articles from which they have coppied ideas in their papers. Isaac Newton famously said "If I have seen further than other men it was only because I was standing on the shoulders of giants". It's sobering to consider that almost all the throughts I've had - or will ever have - will have been thought by some other person long before I was born. - Bob | motters 136 posts. Saturday 01 February, 06:11 Reply