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Gibberish in print.

Source :
New Scientist. 4/23/2005, Vol. 186 Issue 2496, p6-6. 1/4p.
Publication Year :
2005

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