Quasimondo
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- Jan 17, 2004
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/14/mit.prank.reut/index.html
Three MIT students managed to get a computer generated paper full of weird, gibberish, doublespeak mumbo-jumbo accepted at a scientific conference.
Titled, "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy," it featured gramatically correct, but non sensical things such as, "the model for our heuristic consists of four independent components: simulated annealing, active networks, flexible modalities, and the study of reinforcement learning," and, "We implemented our scatter/gather I/O server in Simula-67, augmented with opportunistically pipelined extensions."
The conference in question, the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), was targeted because it is thought of as a conference meant to generate money rather than further academic study.
For those who wish to generate your random scientific paper, go to http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/
Three MIT students managed to get a computer generated paper full of weird, gibberish, doublespeak mumbo-jumbo accepted at a scientific conference.
Titled, "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy," it featured gramatically correct, but non sensical things such as, "the model for our heuristic consists of four independent components: simulated annealing, active networks, flexible modalities, and the study of reinforcement learning," and, "We implemented our scatter/gather I/O server in Simula-67, augmented with opportunistically pipelined extensions."
The conference in question, the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), was targeted because it is thought of as a conference meant to generate money rather than further academic study.
For those who wish to generate your random scientific paper, go to http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/
