WHO WROTE THE FAMOUS “MACBETH” MUSIC?

Who Wrote the Torah

The issue of the authorship of the Torah is important for at least this one reason: since the book claims to have been written by a certain writer, it is simply a matter of integrity that that claim is verified. If this claim to authorship is not substantiated, then why should we trust what that book says? In short, if the Torah claims to be written by Moshe, and we find that it is, in fact, no...

Who Wrote the Hippocratic Oath

Who Wrote This Code? Identifying the Authors of Program Binaries

Program authorship attribution—identifying a programmer based on stylistic characteristics of code—has practical implications for detecting software theft, digital forensics, and malware analysis. Authorship attribution is challenging in these domains where usually only binary code is available; existing source code-based approaches to attribution have left unclear whether and to what extent pr...

Who Wrote this Novel? Authorship Attribution across Three Languages

Based on different writing style definitions, various authorship attribution schemes have been proposed to identify the real author of a given text or text excerpt. In this article we analyze the relative performance of word types or lemmas assigned to represent styles and texts. As a second objective we compare two authorship attribution approaches, one based on principal component analysis (P...

How famous is a scientist? —Famous to those who know us

– Following a recent idea, to measure fame by the number of Google hits found in a search on the WWW, we study the relation between fame (Google hits) and merit (number of papers posted on an electronic archive) for a random group of scientists in condensed matter and statistical physics. Our findings show that fame and merit in science are linearly related, and that the probability distributio...