plagiarism

With so much research now available on the Web, and because the highly searchable nature of electronic content has made it easier to detect unacknowledged copying of original text, the number of reported incidents of alleged plagiarism has been growing.
The PSPB Operations Manual now provides helpful and detailed guidelines for identifying and handling instances of plagiarism.

The topic of plagiarism and related issues have received increasing visibility and significance recently. Within the past year, it has been reported that very significant percentages of students have admitted they have plagiarized the work of others, graduate students have been expelled, and university faculty fired. This is thus a topic of great importance to all researchers. The IEEE has recently updated and clarified its policies with respect to plagiarism and the related issue of multiple submissions.

Jim Kajiya, SIGGRAPH 93 Papers Chair
Everyone knows what acceptable SIGGRAPH papers look like: just look in the proceedings. When one only sees the accepted papers and not the rejected ones, it is easy to get the wrong impression of what it is that SIGGRAPH likes and doesn't like.