Oxford don and his, um, plagiarism-detecting computer program

According to the (London) Times , a California businessman and a Uah legislator contacted Peter Millican, a philosophy professor who has created a computer program that can detect “when works are by the same author.” The two were seeking evidence that would prove that Barack Obama’s memoir was actually ghost-written by Bill Ayers. Millican reported that he took a look at the comparison documents and told the pair that it was “very implausible,” but that he would conduct the study, provided that the results be made public, regardless of the outcome.  At that point in the negotiation, “interest waned,” according to the Times.