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Entry Posted April 15, 2005

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/#examples Conference accepts computer-generated computer science paper. (Looks like Alan Sokol, at least, was suitably cautious in not attempting to draw any strong conclusions from the fact that Social Text accepted his nonsense paper “Transgressing the Boundaries”: “From the mere fact of publication of my parody I think that not much can be deduced.”)

(I’m giving Sokol the benefit of doubt here; in an earlier piece he seemed much more gleeful: “… to test the prevailing intellectual standards, I decided to try a modest (though admittedly uncontrolled) experiment: Would a leading North American journal of cultural studies -- whose editorial collective includes such luminaries as Fredric Jameson and Andrew Ross -- publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions? The answer, unfortunately, is yes.”) 20:43

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T e n / b y / T e n (10by10.typepad.com):
… comprised solely of computer-generated context-free gibberish. Amazingly, one paper was accepted. The paper, "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy," can be found here, replete with diagrams. Noted theauthors, "Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence." …

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