MIT is a hellish place, but they sure know their pranks! MIT hacks (the One Ring in 2001 is a personal favorite)
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yeah, that site has been making the rounds of academic mailing lists for a couple of weeks now. it's important to note that the conference that accepted the paper is a "boutique" scam conference, where they basically accept all the papers, then charge a lot for registration to make money
Stribling said the trio targeted WMSCI because it is notorious within the field of computer science for sending copious e-mails that solicit admissions to the conference.
The idea of a fake submission was to counter "fake conferences...which exist only to make money," explained Stribling and his cohorts' website, "SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator."
2 comments:
yeah, that site has been making the rounds of academic mailing lists for a couple of weeks now. it's important to note that the conference that accepted the paper is a "boutique" scam conference, where they basically accept all the papers, then charge a lot for registration to make money
Aye.
Stribling said the trio targeted WMSCI because it is notorious within the field of computer science for sending copious e-mails that solicit admissions to the conference.
The idea of a fake submission was to counter "fake conferences...which exist only to make money," explained Stribling and his cohorts' website, "SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator."
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