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
The acceptance was subsequently withdrawn, and the WMSCI people got very defensive (“We told you we didn’t review it! We are a great conference! Many people come!”).