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Sunday, April 17, 2005

Gibberish Prank
I am all for practical jokes that don't involve physical pranks. The loaded cigar or the tack on the seat never was funny to me. However, hoaxes and intellectual tricks are like super puns. Like April Fools day on steroids.

This story is of the MIT students who were fed up with the bureaucratic mumbo jumbo in professional papers. (Don't you cringe even at the word "infrastructure"?) Anyhow, they wrote a computer program to generate fake papers with realistic gibberish. Here is a clip from their successful paper:

"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."

They submitted it to the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), scheduled to be held July 10-13 in Orlando, Florida.
AND IT WAS ACCEPTED FOR PRESENTATION!

Scientific Conference Falls for Gibberish Prank

Tossed in by: R.G.B.
. . . Sunday, April 17, 2005

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Gibberish Prank