DOSC TWiki snapshot as of mid-2005
The Computer Science 4 Cheating Incident was an unfortunate incident in the computer science department involving a visiting faculty member? and a considerable number of students enrolled in computer science 4.
Rex Dwyer, a visiting professor from North Carolina State University, accused 40 (?) students in the class of downloading his solution to a web-based problem to cheat. The solution was accessible on a web server?. Various allegations were made by both Dwyer and the students in the CS class. Some students believed that Dwyer intentionally left the solution accessible to "tempt" or "trap" students who downloaded it and used the code. After much consideration, Dean Larimore (acting as head of COS) announced that "the body would be unable to distinguish with certainty between those who cheated and those who received the solutions to the homework from legitimate sources."1 Dwyer went back to North Carolina, and things kind of ended there. Two years later, TheD talked to Dwyer who indicated that he was still upset about the incident.