Stealing news from Slashdot again

So much for one entry a day, but moving on... Some MIT grad students created An Automatic CS Paper Generator, which is cool all by itself. However, this brilliant piece of work it spat out got accepted as a "non-reviewed paper" to the WMSCI 2005 conference! Priceless.

Tempted as I am to reference "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" in the final report for my third year project, I can't find a vaguely relevant context in which to cite it. [Edit: Maybe I'll just bury the citation in an appendix that the markers probably won't reach anyway. Come on, fellow comp scis - let's start a "Rooter" citation cult!]

The students say their next goal is "to go there and give a completely randomly-generated talk, delivered entirely with a straight face."

Procedural content generation one, academia nil.

Here's a link to the Slashdot story.

Posted by pwr (site) at April 13, 2005, 7:37pm. Category: blog. semipermalink

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and if you're in the world of work, the equivalent of this citation for a CV is to put INTERCAL as one of your programming language skills :-)

Posted by Dylan Smith (site) at May 8, 2005, 8:20pm. Category: blog.
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