18.709 dubious conferences: MIT students' response

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 709.
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         Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 06:42:08 +0100
         From: Mark Olsen <mark_at_barkov.uchicago.edu>
         Subject: Re: 18.695 more on possibly dubious conferences

Hi,

I just came across a handy site for all of you who wish to attend
conferences coordinated by Professor Callaos without working too
hard: SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
       http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/
It would appear that one of the two generated papers was accepted
to WMSCI 2005. The enterprising students at MIT are requesting
donations in order to attend the conference and present a
"completely randomly-generated talk". Source code and lots of
great examples are available. Alan Sokal would surely approve. :-)

M
Received on Thu Apr 14 2005 - 01:52:27 EDT