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Randomly generated conference paper accepted

OK, I'm still laughing over this one. According to CNN, a group of MIT students created a program to generate a random computer science paper, and got it accepted at a conference. The paper, Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification
of Access Points and Redundancy is full of statements such as:

One must understand our network configuration to grasp the genesis of our results. We ran a deployment on the NSA’s planetary-scale overlay network to disprove the mutually largescale behavior of exhaustive archetypes. First, we halved the effective optical drive space of our mobile telephones to better understand the median latency of our desktop machines.

which, if you're just skimming, sounds like a lot of the specs I've been forced to read in my life, but is all generated by SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. The code is GPL, by the way, so you can do your own, such as A Construction of Scatter/Gather I/O, either by downloading the code or from their website. (UPDATE: Apparently they only cache the generated papers for a couple of days, so I've removed that link and instead you can read A Methodology for the Synthesis of the Producer-Consumer Problem, which I've now saved to my own server.)

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