April 14, 2005
Peerless
The temptation to take a bite out of Apple yesterday was too much to resist (looks like Wall Street saw things the same way today), so I’m a bit late with this. Three MIT grad students have created SCIgen, a program that churns out random (and nonsensical) computer-science research papers. Go to their site, type in an author or five, and presto, a perfect research paper for submission to the many conferences that value dollars over peer review (you’ll need Adobe Reader to view this seminal collaboration with Albert Einstein and Jimmy Neutron).
Gratifyingly, one of the MIT team’s own papers—the impressively incoherent “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy”—has been accepted by the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2005), whatever that is. The authors hope to attend the conference, to be held in Orlando this July, and give a randomly generated talk that they intend to videotape and post online. Will be interesting to see if any WMSCI attendees spot the spoof…
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