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BeBro

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of the Krauts
Mar 2000
time: 06:37

26-07-2005 10:22

Text Generator can soon win you the nobel prize!

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Hm, maybe not exactly the nobel prize....

But some CS students on the MIT submitted a paper (title: Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy) created by their self-written text generator to the "9. World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics" (WMSCI) - and it was accepted as "non-reviewed" paper....

Even better, they also received ca. 2400 USD in donations within 72 hrs to take part in that conference There they held their own "technical" session in the same hotel including three randomly-generated talks as fake scientists:

* Harnessing Byzantine Fault Tolerance Using Classical Theory
Dr. Thaddeus Westerson, Institute for Human Understanding (Max)
* Synthesizing Checksums and Lambda Calculus using Jog
Dr. Mark Zarqawi, American Freedom University (Jeremy)
* On the Study of the Ethernet
Franz T. Shenkrishnan, PhD, Network Analysis Laboratories (Dan)

Their site with the complete story, and the text generator:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/#talks

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26-07-2005 10:26

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isnt the story kind of old? i'm sure it was reposted at least once

BeBro

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Mar 2000
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26-07-2005 10:27

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Hm, just read about it today....don'tknow if there's already a thread on it....

Tuberski

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Feb 2002
time: 23:37

26-07-2005 10:43

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quote:
Originally posted by MarkG
isnt the story kind of old? i'm sure it was reposted at least once

At least a year ago.

ACK!

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Emperor

USCA, Berkeley
Feb 2001
time: 21:37

26-07-2005 10:46

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So how advanced has their stuff gotten since then?

BeBro

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Mar 2000
time: 06:37

26-07-2005 10:48

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According to their site, most of this happened march - july 2005.....but maybe their site is randomly created too

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Jul 2002
time: 21:37

26-07-2005 10:49

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quote:
Originally posted by Tuberski

At least a year ago.

ACK!

I could have sworn it was more recent than that.

Anyway,

BeBro

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Mar 2000
time: 06:37

26-07-2005 10:54

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When they held their technical session, the audience consisted of exactly one person.....despite one of the students came as Einstein http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~strib/im...ci2005_018.html

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Feb 2001
time: 21:37

26-07-2005 11:19

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Took a glance at one of the papers, it even has graphics!

SpencerH

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Feb 2002
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26-07-2005 16:31

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We've seen this before. I think it was some artsy-type journal that got hoodwinked. That doesnt make this less funny though.

loinburger

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Jul 1999
time: 00:37

26-07-2005 17:05

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This story was posted back when the papers were first accepted, but the site has been updated since then (now that the conference has been held). I was expecting the conference organizers to retract the acceptance/invitation/whatever when they realized that they'd been hoodwinked -- glad to see that they let the students go through with it, through.

Kuciwalker

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Feb 2001
time: 00:37

27-07-2005 00:37

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quote:
Originally posted by SpencerH
We've seen this before. I think it was some artsy-type journal that got hoodwinked. That doesnt make this less funny though.

No. It was a CS conference, but a somewhat less reputable one where you basically just paid them to be published, IIRC.

Dracon II

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Jan 1970
time: 15:37

27-07-2005 06:28

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A high-tech Sokal Affair. Nice

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