Randomly-generated paper accepted for conference

Some CS students from MIT have developed An Automatic Computer Science Paper Generator, or SCIgen, which is a program that creates random research papers on various topics. The papers are vaguely coherent and complete with graphs, figures and citations.

Recently, they entered one such paper to the WMSCI 2005 conference, and it was accepted, darnit! But not only that, they have now gathered enough money from donations that they intend to go to the conference in July and give a randomly-generated talk on the paper’s subject (which, by the way, was Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy). They promise to record their talk on video and make it available publicly.

Incidentally, the Danish professor, Peter Sestoft created a similar program for Danish reports for the Ministry of Research (now Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation) back in 1996 (with Moscow ML, of course).