bogus paper

[dragon]

Well looks like someone at the conference doesn't know what they are doing.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- In a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference.
Jeremy Stribling said Thursday that he and two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with "context-free grammar," charts and diagrams.

The trio submitted two of the randomly assembled papers to the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), scheduled to be held July 10-13 in Orlando, Florida.

To their surprise, one of the papers -- "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" -- was accepted for presentation.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04 ... index.html

[dr. what]

"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."

Whoa. That's...like...really deep man....

[dr. what]

Generate your own conference paper!

Here's mine!

[Ra]

This is some funny shit! Great find! Too bad I can't understand half of it.
Behold!

http://random-beatings.lcs.mit.edu/scic ... ikawa.html
http://random-beatings.lcs.mit.edu/scic ... ikawa.html

BTW, "Akiko Ichikawa" is a name I made up on the top of my head. My real name isn't even close.
- Ra

[Nick Lancaster]

http://random-beatings.lcs.mit.edu/scic ... ikawa.html
http://random-beatings.lcs.mit.edu/scic ... ikawa.html

BTW, "Akiko Ichikawa" is a name I made up on the top of my head. My real name isn't even close.
- Ra

FYI, generated papers appear to be cleared from their cache after a while, so your first link is dead ... didn't check the second.

[Ra]

Yeah, mine and dr. what's papers vanished. Thankfully, I saved mine on .pdf.
- Ra

[DPDarkPrimus]

That's freaking awesome.

[NecronLord]

Too bad I can't understand half of it.

I can. You're not missing much, 's all gobbledy gook. Sometimes short passages will make sense though.

[Castor Troy]

That's pretty cool.

[Grandmaster Jogurt]

Heh heh heh... one of my references was published in Oct '05.

[Spacebeard]

See also the Postmodernism Generator. I'm pretty sure someone using that or a similar system got their paper published in some lit-crit journal, though I can't find a link to it.

[Vanas]

Had a couple of gems in mine:

The rest of the paper proceeds as follows. We motivate the need for Scheme. Continuing with this rationale, to address this quandary, we confirm that semaphores can be made electronic, semantic, and symbiotic. Similarly, we place our work in context with the related work in this area. Ultimately, we conclude.

As far as I can tell, de-jargonated:
We're going to say what we'll do. Then, we'll finish.

Implementation

Our methodology is elegant; so, too, must be our implementation. It was necessary to cap the block size used by Kayak to 6448 GHz. The homegrown database and the collection of shell scripts must run on the same node.

And that's it for implementing. Wonderful stuff.

[Ra]

Here's a snippet of mine.
"The Impact of Symbiotic Archetypes on Steganography", by "Akiko Ichikawa"

2 bit architectures and compilers, while structured in theory, have not until recently been considered confusing. Given the current status of collaborative modalities, systems engineers daringly desire the refinement of congestion control. In this paper we disprove that while public-private key pairs and checksums are always incompatible, multi-processors can be made trainable, decentralized, and interactive.

I guess it said that a processor network can be made into a neural net system. Something like that.

Our implementation of Whelp is metamorphic, mobile, and psychoacoustic. The collection of shell scripts and the codebase of 51 Dylan files must run with the same permissions. Though we have not yet optimized for security, this should be simple once we finish designing the homegrown database.

Psychoacoutsic? WTF? It's a good paper, but certainly confusing.

[Spacebeard]

Psychoacoutsic? WTF? It's a good paper, but certainly confusing.

Psychoacoustic algorithms eliminate sounds which cannot be perceived by the human mind, for example relatively soft tones which are drowned out by a louder tone of the same frequency. It's how lossy audio compression like MP3 works.

[Typhonis 1]

Looks like you found the Trek teknobabel workbook

[Ra]

Just don't tell Brannon Braga about this site. He'll experience instant orgasm at the sight of more t3chn0b4bbl3!
Oh, and thanks for the explanation of what psychoacoustic is, Spacebeard.
- Ra