Those crazy academic-types,
The piece goes onto describe how they did it, and the somewhat embarrassed response from conference organizers. It ends so nicely,
In a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference.
The piece goes onto describe how they did it, and the somewhat embarrassed response from conference organizers. It ends so nicely,
The students were soliciting cash donations so they could attend the conference and give what Stribling billed as a "completely randomly-generated talk, delivered entirely with a straight face."
They exceeded their goal, with $2,311.09 cents from 165 donors.
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