Computer Scientists Are Astir After Baidu Team Is Barred from A.I. Competition
Cheating is pretty entrenched in Chinese culture. Sometimes I even wonder if they consider it's cheating at all or if it's just cleverness and they should be rewarded for it. I believe they feel that way about infringing copyrights too: why should they follow someone else's rules that puts them at a disadvantage when they can instead demonstrate cleverness and break those rules?<p>There was an interesting story recently about how a disproportionate amount of Chinese students are expelled from US universities for cheating.<p><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/29/u-s-schools-expelled-8000-chinese-students-for-poor-grades-cheating/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2015/05/29/u-s-schools-ex...</a><p>The problem is so entrenched that some students <i>rioted</i> when they were prevented from cheating, because they felt that this put them at an unfair disadvantage compared to other schools where cheating was tolerated:<p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10132391/Riot-after-Chinese-teachers-try-to-stop-pupils-cheating.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/1013239...</a>