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Academic thieves beware.
While the Internet has placed a wealth of research papers at the fingertips of students, a new Web site could help professors catch plagiarizers red-handed. Others, however, just copy fake ones off the Internet and turn them in as their work. To prevent collegiate copycats, two graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley have devised a program that compares a student's submission with every other term- paper on the Web. We also compare that with our local data base of term papers. CNN's Dusty Dornin reports that a UC Berkeley grad student has turned the tables and created a web site that allows professors to scan student papers to look for plagiarizers.