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Gibberish in print.
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New Scientist . 4/23/2005, Vol. 186 Issue 2496, p6-6. 1/4p. - Publication Year :
- 2005
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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.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02624079
- Volume :
- 186
- Issue :
- 2496
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- New Scientist
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 17222123