MIT Students' Program for Generating Phony Computer-Science Papers Produces a Winner

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

Fill a paper with gobbledygook, add some fake charts, slap on a title dense with highfalutin 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...

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