April 29, 2005
MIT Students' Program for Generating Phony Academic Papers Produces a Winner
Fill a paper with gobbledygook, add some fake charts, slap on a title dense with scientific jargon, and -- voilà! -- a highfalutin conference may actually accept it.
That's what happened when three students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology submitted a nonsensical research paper to the ninth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, scheduled to be held in Orlando, Fla., in July.
The paper, titled "Rooter: A Methodology for
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