Yes, plagerism. Name and shame is probably a good way to go.
Terry (Tez)
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Regarding this "history-computer.com" web
site of one Georgi Dalakov:
The Whirlwind article on
history-computer.com referenced in the IBM
memory thread contains this:
...
Construction of the machine started in 1948, an effort that employed
175 people,
including 70 engineers and technicians.
Whirlwind took 3 years to build and first went online on April 20, 1951.
The project's budget was $1 million a year, and after three years the
Navy had lost interest.
However, during this time the Air Force had become interested in using
computers to help the task
of ground controlled interception (the Cold War just began), and the
Whirlwind was the
only machine suitable to the task.
...
(
http://history-computer.com/**ModernComputer/Electronic/**
Whirlwind.html<http://history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Electronic/Whi…)
The Whirlwind article on Wikipedia contains this:
...
Construction of the machine started the next year, an effort that
employed 175 people
including 70 engineers and technicians.
Whirlwind took three years to build and first went online on April 20,
1951.
The project's budget was $1 million a year, and after three years the
Navy had lost interest.
However, during this time the Air Force had become interested in using
computers to help the task
of ground controlled interception, and the Whirlwind was the only
machine suitable to the task.
...
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Whirlwind_(computer)<http://en.wikipedia.…)
There are no references or sources cited in the history-computer.comarticle. On the
"sources" page for the site there is a simple global
reference to "Wikipedia". While one might question who is copying who or if
they have a common author, some indication is provided by another example:
Just a few days ago I ended up at the
history-computer.com article about
Edmund Berkeley's Simon machine:
http://history-computer.com/**ModernComputer/Personal/Simon.**html<http:…
I've investigated and written about Simon in some depth, so I was
interested in what someone else might have to say about it. The article
begins with some standard biography of Berkeley, but as I was reading the
technical description of Simon, various sentences started to sound very
familiar: the technical bits are a wholesale rip-off of my own writing:
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/**e/simon/index.html<http://www.cs.ubc.ca/…
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~hilpert/**e/simon/def.html<http://www.cs.ubc.ca/%7…
A third of Dalakov's article is a cut-and-paste effort of entire
paragraphs, sentences and themes lifted straight from my article, with some
occasional rephrasing and reorganisation to fit it into his article. No
links, references or attributions are given to my article or site (not
surprising - one wouldn't want to make it easy for others to spot such
plagiarism.)
Dalakov is simply ripping off other people's writings and efforts. While
word-for-word plagiarism is bad enough, the cut-and-paste mixing of
material means context and accuracy can be lost. It is not original work
and his site is nothing to place any reliance on.