GPLed code generates automated Comp Sci papers — output accepted for conferences!

Cory Doctorow 10:56 am Wed Apr 13, 2005

A GPL'ed automated computer science paper generator programmed by MIT students produces results so good that the output has been accepted at conferences.

Here are two papers we submitted to WMSCI 2005:

* Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy (PS, PDF)
Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn

This paper was recently accepted as a "non-reviewed" paper!

God, between the pompous CS-speak ("few hackers worldwide would disagree with the essential unification of voice-over-IP and public/private key pair. In order to solve this riddle, we confirm that SMPs can be made stochastic, cacheable, and interposable") and the amazing diagrams, this thing is nearly the funniest thing EVAR.

Link
(Thanks, Henry!)

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