Whoa that is insane if he faces no repercussions.

And I am an alumnus of UMD. If they really find him guilty and still do nothing, that’s going to be a stain on their reputation.

They had better change their student conduct policies to not punish plagiarism.

The one thing college students love to do, consistently, is take a principled stand.

This seems like a no brainer loss for Maryland.

It is one of the worst examples I've seen. Just one solid block of lifted text -- with the spelling fixed to look American.

Does anyone know whether it could have been the co-author who did this alone?

>That's damning and indefensible.

without trying to raise a defense, a number of the minor changes to the copied text were distinct improvements. For example, "analysis was predominantly performed by looking at the details of the time domain waveform of the signal" is significantly tighter language!

"time waveform" in the original is somewhat questionable, but time domain, ok, now I get it! If you are going to have somebody plagiarize you, somebody from MIT is best! Then at least you can plagiarize them back.

Same for anyone who's ever worked for one of Bill Ackman's investments? After all, he's married to a plagiarist and we should conclude that he has low standards and spread that guilt by association all over.

Or we could stop fueling the outrage machine.

Did I miss their presidents get found to have blatantly plagiarized and then faced no consequences, still remaining in power? If so then yes

Well, there’s a before-and-after cutoff here. The previous generation will be pilloried for their copying, but the next on is now armed with the tools to copy without detection.

“Chatbot, please rephrase this entire passage so that plagiarism detectors will consider it clean.”

It’s been happening from the moment ChatGPT was released, and after 15 years or so, all the leading young academic stars will have grown up with it.

AI will reveal all past plagiarism, while at the same time allowing anyone to fake it; get the LLM to write their papers or thesis, fabricate research with plausible methods and results, etc, undetectably.

The Claudine Gay example was way, way different than this. She actually DID refer specifically to the authors she was pulling from, she just didn’t paraphrase significantly enough to avoid using quotation marks in doing so.

At least for every example I saw, there was no way a reader would think she was passing the ideas off as her own.

"I did not go though the grueling process of writing an original PhD thesis, just to share a title with those who plagiarized their thesis."

Amen. No to excusing plagiarism of folks that have used it as a tool to climb the ranks of academia.

It doesn’t just have to be plagiarism it can be any aspect of your life.