Todd Proebsting a compiler guy. I'm pretty sure I found a reference to plagiarism detection just the other day, but am having trouble finding it now. So either I'm going senile or Google is playing mind games with me (probably both). In any case, there is a paper at that link about recovering java source from byte code, which is mildly on-topic. Also, check out his discussion of "Proebsting's Law" for compiler optimizations.
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Don't feel bad, bluto, I have many episodes when I can't find things I know I saw earlier... I usually decide the sightings were especially vivid hallucinations. ;-)
Thanks for the name tip!
Another set of links, for those interested:
On Proebsting's Law, by Kevin Scott
Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science, by Stephen Kobourov, Christian Collberg
Deducing Similarities in Java Sources from Bytecodes, by Brenda S. Baker and Udi Manber
Krakatoa: Decompilation in Java (Does Bytecode Reveal Source?), by Todd A. Proebsting and Scott A. Watterson
Finding Similar Files in a Large File System, by Udi Manber
(Say, that last one looks like it might help with our finding issues, at least on our own hard drives... ;-))
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Say, that last one looks like it might help with our finding issues, at least on our own hard drives... ;-))Most (all?) of these folks were from U of Arizona, IIRC (but again don't trust my memory :-) so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some collaboration. Udi Manber, who taught probably the best algorithms class I ever took, wrote or had his hands in agrep (a fast approximate grep) and the Glimpse/WebGlimpse/Harvest indexers. His old web page says he's a VP at Amazon, so perhaps he actually prospered during the dotcom saga...
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