Resources from September 21st – Plagiarism, Babbage, Lovelace

Here’s the New York Times article I quoted today: “Lines on Plagiarism Blur for Students in Digital Age” by Trip Gabriel, August 1, 2010.
More on the German teenage novelist Helene Hegemann: “Author, 17, Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism” by Nicholas Kulish, New York Times, February 11, 2010.
Once again, the Honor System section of the Vanderbilt Student Handbook. Search the page for “common knowledge” to see Vanderbilt’s policy on that topic.
Wikipedia’s entry on “I’ll By Missing You” by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans

Here’s what the Computer History Museum (the one in Mountain View, California) has to say about the Difference Engines built by the Science Museum in London.
And here’s the full, four-minute video from Wired about the Difference Engine now on display at the Computer History Museum:

Ada Lovelace Day – Here’s the website for the annual celebration of women in science and technology. You can learn more about Ada Lovelace Day and the woman herself, see a map showing the geographic locations of the thousands of blog posts written for Ada Lovelace Day, and find links to all those posts organized by heroine. Here’s my contribution to Ada Lovelace Day 2010 which includes links to a few other contributions I found interesting.
Sydney Padua’s Lovelace and Babbage Comics – All of Sydney Padua’s comics are available online, and all feature extensive footnotes and references! And here’s the comic the BBC commissioned from Sydney Padua that explains Lovelace’s and Babbage’s contributions to the field of computer science.

Image: “The Vigenere Cypher” by Sydney Padua

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