Automatic scholarly paper writer

Discussion in 'IT and Computer-Related Degrees' started by John Bear, Apr 15, 2008.

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  1. John Bear

    John Bear Senior Member

    Here's a wonderfully clever site that randomly generates computer science research papers, listing you as author, in about 2 seconds. The scalawags at MIT who created this claim that at least one such paper was accepted for presentation at a major conference.

    http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
     
  2. Neoplato

    Neoplato New Member

    Wow! And they have the video to prove it :) (I didn't even know conferences sometimes accepted "non-reviewed" papers. I guess it wasn't a very popular conference.)
     
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  3. Stanislav

    Stanislav Well-Known Member

    WM-SCI and related venues are allegedly the "diploma mill" of CS conferences. They (allegedly) spam the whole field with their calls for papers and then accept everything, charging $350 per paper registration fee. The story of MIT guys submitting nonsense paper to WM-SCI was a big story couple of years ago. That was a reason I resisted the idea of publishing a paper we wrote in a journal with "cybernetics and systemics" in its name.

    More amazing is the fact that some Iranian students managed to submit a SCIGENed paper to a Elsevier journal, Applied Mathematics and Computation - and get accepted!
    http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/blog/index.php?entry=entry070626-110103
     
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  4. Woho

    Woho New Member

    Awsome! This is really a great story :)
     

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