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MIT Celebrates 10 Years of SCIgen Bogus CompSci Paper Generator With New Tool
alphadogg writes Three MIT grads this week are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their clever SCIgen program, which randomly generates computer science papers realistic enough to get accepted by sketchy technical conferences and publishers, with a brand new tool designed to poke even more fun at such outfits. Just a bit late for April Fool's Day, the new SCIpher program from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab alums enables users to hide messages inside randomly-generated calls for papers from phony conferences whose names are so ridiculous that they sound legit. An MIT spokesman says the new tool is really just a way for geeky friends to mess with each other, whereas SCIgen pointed out major flaws in the worlds of scientific journals and conferences.
Honestly, if there's a better reason to write a piece of software, I can't think of it. :-P
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
I am unfortunately relegated to a matter of higher truthiness for the duration of the esteemed Congress, and therefore must submit my regrets.
Phineas T. Barnum, esq.
Head Clown
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
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As a tenured professor in Hitler Studies, I can confirm this was his dream.
So it is not as difficult to create spurious call for papers.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Submitting climate change alarmism papers?
It might have been too late for the traditional world-wide April 1st "April Fools Day" but it landed smack dab on the USA's own second "April Fools Day", otherwise known as "tax day"...
THANK YOU, Edward Snowden!! Americans owe you a debt of gratitude (whether they know it or not..)
The First Annual AVQWO Symposium on relational, extensible methodologies
Greetings Colleagues -
Many futurists would agree that, had it not been for cloud-based communication, the significant unification of SMPs and information retrieval systems might never have occurred. To put this in perspective, consider the fact that well-known theorists always use robots to solve this challenge. In the opinions of many, the field of cognitive science follows a cycle of four phases: visualization, creation, creation, and analysis. On the other hand, the location-identity split with DHTs alone might fulfill the need for telephony.
Advisor Committee:
Ashley Berg, Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague
AVQWO in previous years:
Kobe, Japan
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
University of Essex
Maiduguri, Nigeria
Organizers:
Donovan Newton - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Steering Committee:
Ilona Moses - University of Liverpool
Keynote talks:
* Jeana Larsen - Northern Illinois University
Controlling forward-error correction using robust models
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Saturated electrical engineering
Deadlines:
May 9, 2015: abstracts due
June 19, 2015: notification of acceptance
July 1, 2015: final abstracts due
July 26, 2015: conference date
As one of the intuitive conferences of the 2015 workshop on modular modalities, AVQWO is dedicated to being a forum for grey hats and modding enthusiasts to display their original manuscripts and potential wild and crazy directions on the programming languages advancements. Without a doubt, this colloquium invites occasional mature submissions, visionary drafts, and brand new abstracts in all aspects of pervasive graphics. The subject of AVQWO is ' simulated Web services for the theorists ', networking the mixture of the understanding of gigabit switches that made visualizing and possibly visualizing Lamport clocks a reality, concurrent multimedia, and the visualization of reinforcement learning in disconfirming distinct systems of saturated networking. Therefore this colloquium provides advanced, exceptional, and innovative articles on disproving any software-defined results to all aspects on the subject of this colloquium.
We are emailing you this accouncement, trusting that you will consider submitting several articles to this colloquium. As a policy, only visionary revisions will be considered (no revisions). Please discover the hotel information and other details on the colloquium website.
A SCIGen paper responding to a SCIpher call for papers nets its "author" the Turing award. The punch line? It deserves it.