1. Gibberish in print.
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CYBERNETICS , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *STUDENTS , *INFORMATION science , *PAPER , *SPAM email - Abstract
The article focuses on the prank committed by some of the students in the U.S. in which a computer-generated piece of gibberish was accepted as a genuine scientific paper. Sick of receiving spam emails requesting submissions to the 2005 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, which charges $390 for each attendee, students Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a program to generate a nonsense paper. The conference organizers say that the paper was sent to human reviewers, who never commented on it, so it ended up being automatically accepted.
- Published
- 2005