Monday, April 18, 2005
MIT students pull prank on conference
As a prank, a trio of MIT grad students submitted two computer-generated papers to the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI). To their surprise, one of the papers — "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" — was accepted for presentation.
Here's the submitted paper in PDF format. Apparently the conference doesn't review all submissions and this one "slipped by". If a reviewer had read the abstract they would know that the submission was bogus:
Here's the submitted paper in PDF format. Apparently the conference doesn't review all submissions and this one "slipped by". If a reviewer had read the abstract they would know that the submission was bogus:
If you want to generate your own paper, you can use their program called SCIgen. For example, see my excellent article on Kapok: A Methodology for the Simulation of the Location-Identity Split.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.
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