Here is a hysterical story about fake papers written by computers full of baloney being published in various journals and proceedings:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/02/27/how_nonsense_papers_ended_up_in_respected_scientific_journals.html http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ A sample paper, which was actually published: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/rooter.pdf It read like some of the cold fusion papers I have edited. It is very impressive for a computer! I love these PowerPoint slides: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/shenktalk.pdf Some high points: The "Framework" on p. 8. "Complexity * We asked (and answered) what would happen if lazily discrete web browsers were used instead of gigabit switches" We're glad you asked! The slide on p. 11, "Code Complexity" is wonderful random noise. It looks a lot like some of the excess heat results I have seen. This is from: Talks Thanks to the generous donations of 165 people, we went to WMSCI 2005 in Orlando and held our own "technical" session in the same hotel. The (randomly-generated) title of the session was The 6th Annual North American Symposium on Methodologies, Theory, and Information<http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/analogic_flier.pdf>. The session included three randomly-generated talks: - Harnessing Byzantine Fault Tolerance Using Classical Theory<http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/thaddeustalk.pdf> Dr. Thaddeus Westerson, Institute for Human Understanding (Max) - Synthesizing Checksums and Lambda Calculus using *Jog*<http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/zarqawitalk.pdf> Dr. Mark Zarqawi, American Freedom University (Jeremy) - On the Study of the Ethernet<http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/shenktalk.pdf> Franz T. Shenkrishnan, PhD, Network Analysis Laboratories (Dan) You gotta love "Institute for Human Understanding." - Jed
