Comments on: Submitting a dissertation

By: xytrius

xytrius — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:49:57 +0000

Plagiarism by individuals in local educational institutions in India and the black market it runs on has nothing to do with security of internal data in an offshored data/research center (also in India). Prakash mixes the two up.

The implication that academic work offshored to India is less secure because it is academic work/intellectual property is silly.

R&D centers in India produce hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property (Microsoft’s UNIX development center in H’bad and the GE’s John Welch center in B’lore come to mind) every year. There has not been a single case of IP theft from these places.

By: PDCS

PDCS — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:29:18 +0000

Well, academics thrives on plagiarism. it just takes different forms in different countries and institutions. we all try to be really hard, get trained and then become experts in being unoriginal.

By: Prakash

Prakash — Thu, 18 May 2006 16:08:07 +0000

One thing I noticed is people presenting someone else work as theirs are getting degrees/doctorates etc .This is rampant in Bangalore/Mysore Universities .
So extra care needs to be taken .If such a thing opens in Hyderabad .All the xerox centers in Ameerpet would be selling Overseas project submission for a fee to Osmania University students .
One cannot imagine how business keen people in hyderabad are after having stayed in Hyd for 3+ years.I witnessed every golmaal people can think of .
( I am not sure your above subject is pertaining to what I just wrote ) .

By: PDCS

PDCS — Thu, 18 May 2006 14:46:29 +0000

Yeah, that’s one business plan I have been working on. Actually, providing research assistance of all kinds to American academics for a fee is not a bad business idea and there is some decent money to be made too.

Graduate students usually offshore such tedious work to their friends. Lucky them, than some poor soul in Bangalore.

By: Atlanta Prakash

Atlanta Prakash — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:41:51 +0000

This is something like QA in Software writing..

Quick Question: Can’t you Offshore?? **wink**