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August 28, 2009

The plagiarism of A. Q. Khan, "father" of Pakistan's atom bomb

Fahad Rafique Dogar in Pakistan's The News (via Five Rupees, via Yes and No):

This is with reference to Dr A Q Khan’s column “Science of computers — part I” which appeared in your pages on Aug 19.

ScreenHunter_03 Aug. 28 13.01 1. Dr Khan writes: “The computer is an essential part of 21st century life. Computer science is a fast-moving subject that gives rise to a range of interesting and often challenging problems. The implementation of today’s complex computer systems requires the skills of a knowledgeable and versatile computer scientist. Artificial intelligence — the study of intelligent behaviour — is having an increasing reference on computer system design. Distributed systems, networks and the internet are now central to the study of computing, presenting both technical and social challenges.”

Now compare this to the first paragraph of Undergraduate Prospectus 2009, University of Sussex(www.sussex.ac.uk/units/publications/ugrad2009/subjects/computing):

“Computing is an essential part of 21st-century life, and is an exceptionally fast-moving subject that gives rise to a range of interesting and challenging problems. The implementation of today’s complex computing systems, networks and multimedia systems requires the skills of knowledgeable and versatile computer scientists. Computer networks and the internet are now central to the study of computing and information technology, presenting both technical and social challenges. Artificial intelligence (AI) — the study of intelligent behaviour — is having an increasing influence on computer system design.”

More here.

Posted by Abbas Raza at 07:05 AM | Permalink

Comments

Ouch! Well played, Fahad. Leave it to a CMU student (my son's alma mater).

You'd think plagarism detection would be an automated pre-publication routine at this point.

Posted by: Carlos | Aug 28, 2009 8:33:28 AM

I think we can forgive him for helping to develop nuclear weapons that are likely soon to fall under the control of murderous raving fanatic criminal loonies like the Taliban, but plagiarism is a crime against the most basic ethics of Litterature; this is just too much to bear.

Posted by: aguy109 | Aug 29, 2009 5:09:34 AM

Thanks for huge post

Posted by: Development Net | Jul 15, 2011 11:10:35 AM

Fascinating! This is an old post from 2009 and the link to the letter is no longer functional. However, I found another link that provides the letter written by Dogar: http://asiancorrespondent.com/36401/a-q-khan-plagiarizing-op-ed-pieces-after-lifetime-of-stealing-and-selling-nuclear-secrets/

If this is true then add cut 'n' paste to A. Q. Khan's many talents, along with his mastery of the xerox machine. His Wikipedia profile, however, was silent about this charge of plagiarism, and it seems to be too funny to be true.

Posted by: Sam | Jul 16, 2011 1:00:58 AM

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