5.0446 Qs: E-Mail Addresses; Letter; Education (4/90)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 12 Nov 1991 18:32:43 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 5, No. 0446. Tuesday, 12 Nov 1991.


(1) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 16:52:50 EST (10 lines)
From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel)
Subject: Contact in Greece

(2) Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 19:44:02 CST (18 lines)
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: long letter

(3) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 09:32:31 EST (18 lines)
From: Gregory Bloomquist <GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject: e-Mail Address for Inst. of Classical Studies

(4) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 91 18:42:44 GMT (36 lines)
From: Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject: Education help

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 16:52:50 EST
From: lenoblem@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Lenoble Michel)
Subject: Contact in Greece

I am looking for a correspondent with an e-mail address in
Greece. Could anyone among Humanist members give me a hint as I
am trying to gather information about the lawsuit for plagiarism
involving Umberto Eco. May be Italian colleagues could have
valuable information too.
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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 91 19:44:02 CST
From: (James Marchand) <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: long letter
 
We had a posting in French some time back on the question of the sentence:
I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote a long one.  As
is usual with such quotations, attribution is a problem, because of what
Merton called "the palimpsesting syndrome."  In Der grosse Duden, vol. 2
"Stilwoerterbuch," 1963, p. 14 one reads: "Der junge Goethe schreibt ein-
mal an seine Schwester: 'Da ich keine Zeit habe, Dir einen kurzen Brief
zu schreiben, schreibe ich Dir einen langen,' ein Gedanke, den er uebri-
gens bei Cicero aufgelesen hat."  So the saying goes back at least as far
as Cicero, definitely earlier than Pascal.  Where Cicero got it nemo scit.
In a previous posting, which somehow got lost, I mentioned that Adlai
Stevenson is often credited with "If you will stop lying about my friends,
I will stop telling the truth about you."  I have this from a 19th century
Swede, but I am sure it goes back further.  Does anybody know?
Jim Marchand
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Date:         Tue, 12 Nov 91 09:32:31 EST
From:         Gregory Bloomquist <GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA>
Subject:      e-Mail Address for Inst. of Classical Studies
 
I am looking for an e-mail address for the Institute of Classical Studies of
the University of London.
 
Greetings.
 
L. Gregory Bloomquist
Saint Paul University / University of Ottawa
 
         BITNET: GBLOOMQ@UOTTAWA
         Internet: GBLOOMQ@ACADVM1.UOTTAWA.CA
         S-Mail: 223 Main St., Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1C4 CANADA
         Voice:  (613) 782-3027 / 236-1393
         FAX:    (613) 567-2959 / 782-3005
 
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Date:       Tue, 12 Nov 91 18:42:44 GMT
From:       Richard Giordano <rich@cs.man.ac.uk>
Subject:    Education help
 
 
I have the following request from a colleague.  Can anyone steer him in
the right direction?  I haven't a clue.
 
 
What follows is an edited note that my colleague sent to me.
 
Thanks,
 
Richard Giordano
 
 
 
Unfortunately, the paper is not on my technical specialist subject
(parallel processor architecture) but on what I suppose is supposed
to be everyone's professional specialist subject (teaching).
Consequently, I haven't the faintest idea how to find out about
forthcoming conferences, journals, etc where I could try submitting
the paper.  Your name was suggested as someone who I could ask.
 
The paper reports on a Plagiarism Detector for student Pascal programs.
In fact, it has been written to be usable on C, Fortran, etc programs too
with minimal modification.
Not only does it successfully detect suspected instances of plagiarism,
but it offers the human examiner advise on marks for the non-plagiarised
programs too (it offers a mark (out of 25%) for quantity of comments,
length of user names, consistent use of indentation, etc).
 
So, I assume I am looking for a conference or journal on automatic
course work marking.  With all the studies on multiple choice examinations,
there must be such conferences and journals around.