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2005 04 14

Paper Generator

A group of grad students, Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, and Dan Aguayo, from the PDOS research group at MIT CSAIL developed a program called SCIgen to randomly generate Computer Science papers:

“SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.”

“One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to “fake” conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money. … Using SCIgen to generate submissions for conferences like this gives us pleasure to no end. In fact, one of our papers was accepted …”

Yes, it’s true! They just got an accepted paper and apparently they are going to the conference to give a random generated talk :) I predict an interesting discussion after the talk… or no discussion at all :-)
Additionally, you can also generate your own paper.

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