kmhess writes “At work, I was reading some aggregated news stories and one caught my eye becuase it was about the history of computing, regarding Pierre Jaquet-Droz and the creation of mechanical devices called Automata that were examples of mechanical computers a few decades before Babbages Difference engines. I was curious what Wikipedia had on the subject, and was surprised to find it was almost exactly the same wording as the news article, except the Wikipedia article was written in 2004. I tracked down the source of the news story to Computerworld, but unfortunately they’ve deleted the article from their online version.
You can read the wikipedia story here
Googles cached version of “Geek’s Garden” from Computerworld, 9/22/2006 here (this may not work)
I sent a note to the editors becuase I was concerned that this was plagiarism, and I guess it was. You can read
the statement from Computerworld’s Editor here.”
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