OK, we've all been to a conference talk or two that sounded like the author had been smoking the thesaurus. But this beats them all: some MIT students wrote a program that randomly generated a meaningless conference talk paper. Then they submitted it. And it was accepted.
[Update: forgot to credit Shawn Van Ness for pointing this one out on the WinTechOffTopic Mailing List.]
Posted
Apr 15 2005, 06:03 AM
by
craig-andera