Suitably confusing academics

I love these guys. In fact, now I know what's missing from my papers: opacity. Here's the item from the Inquirer: Computer gibberish accepted by boffins. The crux:

Jeremy Stribling and two fellow MIT graduate students wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with "context-free grammar," charts and diagrams.

They submitted two of the randomly assembled papers to the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI).

One of the papers, called "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy", was accepted.

Posted by Grayson at April 15, 2005 12:38 PM