Friday, April 15, 2005

MIT Students Generate Gibberish

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.]

2 comments:

  1. It's nice to see people being kept on their toes. =)

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  2. Interesting finds this week

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