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The papers in question were generated by the SCIGen paper generator. Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and I are the authors of that system, with Jeremy doing the l
by maxtaco 13y ago
The papers in question were generated by the SCIGen paper generator. Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and I are the authors of that system, with Jeremy doing the lionshare of the work. The inspiration for SCIgen was TheSpark.com's high school paper generator, which ran from about 1999 to 2001. To call these autogenerated works gibberish is an affront to those of us who hand-assembled their context-free grammars!
- jeremyjh 13y agoThis is great work. I'm curious about your motivations. Do you consider it a validation of your work that so many papers were published?
- maxtaco 13y agoAt the time, there was an arms race within the systems community to see who could flip a bigger bird to the organizers of the SCI spamference. David Mazieres and Eddie Kohler started it off when they submitted "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" [1] for publication. We wanted to one-up them and figured we could do so by submitting a random paper that might be accepted into the conference, allowing us to give an in-person talk. The plan worked up to a point, but when we asked the internet for $3k to send us to Orlando, the press and then the organizers of SCI caught wind and revoked the random paper they had previously accepted. Everything since has been gravy. We're pumped that SCIgen is still a useful weapon against charlatans the world over (this now includes you, IEEE and Springer). [1] http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
- JonnieCache 13y agoThat link is priceless. What does it remind me of? I have a half-memory of a fake scientific paper full of nonsense words and incomprehensible diagrams that was very amusing. It was a bit like this: http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9581/waltz19pq.jpg http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9581/waltz19pq.jpg Anyone know what I'm on about?
- twic 13y agoNot the chicken paper? http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
- JonnieCache 13y agoThat was it. Thankyou.
- editer 13y agoAlso, the slides are pretty good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk
- maxtaco 13y agoIndeed, the chicken paper inspired the work of Mazieres and Kohler. They should have cited it, maybe that's why SCI rejected them.
- ArbitraryLimits 13y agoIt wasn't really funny until I saw the first figure, then I died laughing.