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It's not just the humanities, computer science is also susceptible to hoaxes built from jargon. SCIgen works like an academic "Mad Libs" of sorts, arbitrarily
by panarky 8y ago
It's not just the humanities, computer science is also susceptible to hoaxes built from jargon.
SCIgen works like an academic "Mad Libs" of sorts, arbitrarily slotting in computer-science buzzwords like "distributed hash tables" and "Byzantine fault tolerance."
http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scientific-journals-0414 http://news.mit.edu/2015/how-three-mit-students-fooled-scien...
- ajshankar 8y agoThat paper was accepted as a non-reviewed paper. There was no peer-review process.
- Apocryphon 8y agoWhich one? Both that article and this one lists multiple cases where SCIgen-generated papers were waved through: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen#Prominent_results https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen#Prominent_results
- ajshankar 8y agoFrom the article: In April of 2005 the team’s submission, “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy,” was accepted as a non-reviewed paper to the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), a conference that Krohn says is known for “being spammy and having loose standards.”