Student Author Says She 'Internalized' Passages of Another Book
By JAKE TAPPER and AUDREY TAYLOR
April 26, 2006 — - Harvard University student Kaavya Viswanathan is only 19, but her first novel "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life" netted her a reported six-figure two-book deal, not to mention movie rights acquired by Dreamworks.
Leave it to her lesser-compensated classmates to root out the book's striking similarities to another book by another author, Megan McCafferty. A few sentences are almost identical. Now, the publishing world is up in arms -- especially coming so soon after James Frey's so-called million little lies about his exaggerated memoir, "A Million Little Pieces."
That scandal led to a riveting if also painful-to-watch confrontation on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
"It is difficult to talk to you," Winfrey said on the show. "I feel duped." "
"You betrayed millions of readers," she said, noting that she had chosen his book as one of her Oprah's Book Club titles.
Viswanathan says her apparent borrowing was an accident. A fan of McCafferty's work, she says she may have "internalized " it.
Now let's not be too harsh about this young woman's lucrative pilfering or, rather, "internalization." She's in good academic company.
A study by the highly respected Chronicle of Higher Education finds that plagiarism on college campuses is far more prevalent than you may think -- by professors.
松井彰彦氏は、経済学におけるゲームの理論の拡充に顕著な業績をあげている。経済学におけるゲームの理論の研究は20世紀中頃に始まり、1980年代から急速に展開し、ここ10年ほどの間にノーベル経済学賞が5人のゲーム理論研究者に授賞されている。わが国においても彼らに続く国際的水準の研究者は10人を下らないが、松井氏はそのうちの代表的な若手研究者である。その業績は、まず最適反応動学(Best Response Dynamics)を提唱して社会ゲームの理論の端緒となった理論的および応用的な研究にはじまり、さらに帰納論的ゲーム理論(Inductive Game Theory)を開拓したところに、国際的にも高く評価される特徴がある。それらを通じ、従来のゲームの理論で前提されていた超合理性の仮定を緩めて、狭義の、あるいは局所的な経済問題にとどまらず、市場経済を支えている慣習や規範、さらには差別と偏見、国際交流による言語、文化、商慣習の変化などをふくめ、広く社会的諸問題を解明するうえでのゲーム理論の適用可能性を探究しているところに、優れた視野の広さ、独創的な資質、および研究構想の将来性が示されている。