HILARIOUS: gibberish thesis accepted into academic conference!

[mbt]

A bunch of MIT students write a program that generates a whole academic paper filled with gibberish, submit two of the generated entries to an academic conference, and end up being invited to present one of the randomly-generated theses at the nerds' convocation. so much for rigorous academic standards! bwahahahahaaaa :bwahaha:

Link to the news article on cnn.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science...eut/index.html

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MIT students pull prank on conference
Computer-generated gibberish submitted, accepted
Thursday, April 14, 2005 Posted: 7:29 PM EDT (2329 GMT)

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.

The prank recalled a 1996 hoax in which New York University physicist Alan Sokal succeeded in getting an entire paper with a mix of truths, falsehoods, non sequiturs and otherwise meaningless mumbo-jumbo published in the quarterly journal Social Text, published by Duke University Press.

Stribling said he and his colleagues only learned about the Social Text affair after submitting their paper.

"Rooter" features such mind-bending gems as: "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."

Stribling said the trio targeted WMSCI because it is notorious within the field of computer science for sending copious e-mails that solicit admissions to the conference.

The idea of a fake submission was to counter "fake conferences...which exist only to make money," explained Stribling and his cohorts' website, "SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator."

"Our aim is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence," it said. The website allows users to "Generate a Random Paper" themselves, with fields for inserting "optional author names."
"Contrarily, the lookaside buffer might not be the panacea..."

Nagib Callaos, a conference organizer, said the paper was one of a small number accepted on a "non-reviewed" basis -- meaning that reviewers had not yet given their feedback by the acceptance deadline.

"We thought that it might be unfair to refuse a paper that was not refused by any of its three selected reviewers," Callaos wrote in an e-mail. "The author of a non-reviewed paper has complete responsibility of the content of their paper."

However, Callaos said conference organizers were reviewing their acceptance procedures in light of the hoax.

Asked whether he would disinvite the MIT students, Callos replied, "Bogus papers should not be included in the conference program."

Stribling said conference organizers had not yet formally rescinded their invitation to present the paper.

The students were soliciting cash donations so they could attend the conference and give what Stribling billed as a "completely randomly-generated talk, delivered entirely with a straight face."

They exceeded their goal, with $2,311.09 cents from 165 donors.
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Link to the webpage of the computer science academic paper generator (you can generate an original, complete technical paper for yourself here):
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/#examples

[van_wilder]

tsk tsk... pero anong malay nila, baka may sense pala yun paper nila


"so crazy it might just work..."
-masters of disguise...

[mbt]

hahaha, chong, basahin mo yung full text ng paper entitled, "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" :bwahaha:

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/rooter.pdf

[van_wilder]

wala ngang kwenta... binasa mo lahat?

[Yssa]

oo nga po ,parang wlang kwenta...nagdalwang isip tuloy ako kung masyadong pangmatatalino ba yun at ang bobits ko para maintindihan o wla tlgang sense hehehehehe

[BlueBimmer]

haha 1st paragraph lng naintindihan ko

[nugundam93]

they got 0wn3d, that's for sure. heheh.

t3h w1nn4r i5 y0u!!! :D

[OTEP]

Parang thesis ko nung college. I hope my college professor is not reading this :D

[kinyo]

it only goes to show that scientists would rather work on their lab than read somebody's paper