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Randomly Generated Paper Accepted to Conference

Posted by timothy on from the swi-jljkd8623hds-s89s-da-s dept.

mldqj writes "Some students at MIT wrote a program called SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. From their website: SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. What's amazing is that one of their randomly generated paper was accepted to WMSCI 2005. Now they are accepting donation to fund their trip to the conference and give a randomly generated talk."

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  1. No more monkeys... by darthgnu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...to get those million typewriters going, darn !

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  2. And now they just need to patent it by Maxo-Texas · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm sure the patent office will approve whatever the paper was talking about.

    Hmmm. That would be the next approach. Randomly generated patent applications which you can use to sue things that seem close to them years later.

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