Prank fools US science conference

[Guest guest]

Srila Prabhupada:

 

panditye capalam vacah. If a man talks expertly, it doesn't matter what he

talks. Nobody requires to understand him. Then he is pandita. He is (speaks

gibberish:) "Haperkulasvena bagavad dagvendikali gundulas, by the lacticism

of wife...," like, if you go on speaking, nobody will understand. (laughter)

Nobody will understand, and people, "Oh, see how learned he is." (laughter)

Actually it is happening. There are so many rascals. They are writing book,

and "Oh, such and such, oh...What you have understand?Oh, it is

inexplicable. Inexplicable." That is going on.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.46 -- Los Angeles, December 24,

1973

 

 

 

BBC NEWS

Prank fools US science conference

A collection of computer-generated gibberish in the form of an academic

paper has been accepted at a scientific conference, to the delight of

hoaxers.

 

 

Three US boffins built a programme designed to create research papers with

random text, charts and diagrams.

 

 

Two bogus papers were submitted to a computing conference in Florida, and

one of them was accepted.

 

 

One of the hoaxers said the fake paper was designed to expose the lack of

standards at academic gatherings.

 

 

The paper has the nonsense headline "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical

Unification of Access Points and Redundancy".

 

 

It was accepted for the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and

Informatics (WMSCI), due to be held in the city of Orlando in July.

 

 

Donation request

 

 

Hoaxer Jeremy Stribling, a computer science graduate at Boston's MIT

university, said they had targeted WMSCI because it sent large amounts of

spam emails soliciting admissions for the conference.

 

 

We implemented our scatter/ gather I/O server in Simula-67, augmented with

opportunistically pipelined extensions.

 

 

"We were tired of the spam," he told Reuters news agency.

 

 

The trio are planning to attend the conference and give a randomly generated

talk, for which they are requesting donations on their website.

 

 

They have so far received more than $2,000.

 

 

Visitors to the site are also invited to generate their own academic

gobbledegook.

 

 

But conference organisers poured cold water on the proposed presentation,

saying bogus papers would not be included in the conference agenda.

 

 

Conference General Chair Nagib Callaos said the paper had been passed

because reviewers had not given feedback on it by a set deadline.

 

 

"We thought that it might be unfair to refuse a paper that was not refused

by any of its three selected reviewers," Mr Callaos told Reuters news

agency.

 

 

He added that the conference was now reviewing its acceptance procedures.

 

 

Story from BBC NEWS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/americas/4449651.stm

 

 

Published: 2005/04/15 16:39:00 GMT

 

 

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