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This was fark'd awhile ago but it recently came up again at slashdot so I just had to blog it.
Some grad students at MIT came up with a Computer Science (CS) paper generator. Of course, all of the papers it generates are complete bunk, meant for "amusement, not coherence". According to the website:
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper GeneratorOne useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to "fake" conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money.
Here is the abstract from their randomly generated paper "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy"
Many physicists would agree that, had it not been for congestion control, the evaluation of web browsers might never have occurred. In fact, few hackers worldwide would disagree with the essential unification of voice-over-IP and public- private key pair. In order to solve this riddle, we confirm that SMPs can be made stochastic, cacheable, and interposable.Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy
And, this paper was actually accepted at WMSCI 2005.
Is the CS field really as full of it as all that? They managed to raise enough donations that they are going to the conference to preform a randomly generated speech. A speech they are going to make their best effort to give with a completely straight face. They are even going to video tape it and then post the vid on their site.
And, of course, addressing the most pressing need of most web denziens under Related there is a link to "Another fantastic submission to SCI 2005, by David Mazieres and Eddie Kohler" which is a ten page paper entirely made up of the repeated line "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" complete with flow chart.
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