Detecting code plagiarism

From: ASEE Prism | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

Computer programming assignments often involve hundreds or thousands of lines of complex code, making it difficult for professors to notice when students are copying each other's work. Now, however, a University of California at Berkeley professor has developed an automated method to detect such plagiarism.

Alex Aiken, an associate professor of computer science, has created a system that compares students' programs and identifies those that contain similar computer code, which signals possible plagiarism. Aiken's system, called Measure of Software Similarity (MOSS), is available online, ...

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