> > http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/
> 
> I have problem in English, so I'd like to make confirm it.
> IS IT A JOKE? â

It's not a joke.  WMSCI is a money-making conference that
spams academics non-stop begging for submissions.  
After seeing David Mazieres's submission
(http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/~dm/remove.pdf),
the students involved (some of my officemates)
spent about a week, off and on, building a random grammar
for generating research papers and submitted two 
randomly-generated papers.  One got in, one did not.

It may not be immediately obvious to a non-native
speaker, but the papers are just gibberish.  They don't
make sense from one sentence to the next.  Even the most
cursory reading of a paragraph or two should have been
enough to figure out that the papers were fakes.  And yet
one still got in.

The hope is that enough egg will end up on WMSCI's face
that they'll stop spamming us.  Then again, I doubt it.
There was an interesting post on Slashdot from someone
who said that he had first heard of iiisci (the parent organization)
when he saw a phishing email that used them as a link, and
when he emailed them to warn them that they were being used
like that (thinking their site had been taken over by hackers),
he started getting the conference spams.

Russ

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