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  • Text Generator can soon win you the nobel prize!

    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:
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  • #2
    isnt the story kind of old? i'm sure it was reposted at least once
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    • #3
      Hm, just read about it today....don'tknow if there's already a thread on it....
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      • #4
        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!
        Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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        • #5
          So how advanced has their stuff gotten since then?
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          • #6
            According to their site, most of this happened march - july 2005.....but maybe their site is randomly created too
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Tuberski


              At least a year ago.

              ACK!
              I could have sworn it was more recent than that.

              Anyway,
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              • #8
                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/ima...i2005_018.html
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                • #9
                  Took a glance at one of the papers, it even has graphics!
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                  There are reasons why I believe mankind should live in cities and let nature reclaim all the villages with the exception of a few we keep on display as horrific reminders of rural life.-Starchild
                  Meat eating and the dominance and force projected over animals that is acompanies it is a gateway or parallel to other prejudiced beliefs such as classism, misogyny, and even racism. -General Ludd

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                  • #10
                    We've seen this before. I think it was some artsy-type journal that got hoodwinked. That doesnt make this less funny though.
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                    • #11
                      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.
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                      • #12
                        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.

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                        • #13
                          A high-tech Sokal Affair. Nice

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