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Are you sure you didn’t plagiarize? The computer is.
When University of Virginia Professor Lou Bloomfield first heard that students were recycling term papers in his popular physics class, he spent a night designing a computer program to check for plagiarism. His class, called “How Things Work,” was billed as physics for non-scientists, and drew a crowd of 500 students each semester.