Poster: Source Code Authorship Attribution

As information becomes widely available and easily accessible through the Internet and other sources, the trend of plagiarism has been increasing. Plagiarism and copyright infringement are issues that come up in both academic and corporate environments. We need author classification techniques to inhibit such unethical violations. Source code is also intellectual property and reflects individual style. It is important to be able to identify the author of source code. Building a tool to detect the author of a program in an automated way aids in resolving copyleft, copyright and plagiarism issues in the programming fields. Making authorship attribution tools available to the public will also raise consciousness and decrease any possible tendency to plagiarize.