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mrrockford writes "MIT students pull prank on conference
Thursday, April 14, 2005 Posted: 7:29 PM EDT (2329 GMT)
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- 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.
Jeremy Stribling said Thursday that he and two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with context-free grammar, charts and diagrams.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/04/14/mit.prank.reut/index.html
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