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Fed up with being spammed with invitations from Bentham Science to publish in their journals, Philip Davis decided to do something about it. Using the SCIgen programme, he created a random, content-free computer science paper, "Deconstructing Access Points":
The synthesis of the Ethernet is a confusing grand challenge. Given the current status of knowledgebased archetypes, statisticians particularly desire the refinement of superpages, which embodies the practical principles of software engineering. In order to address this riddle, we investigate how web browsers can be applied to the construction of the Ethernet. [...] In this section, we discuss existing research into red-black trees, vacuum tubes, and courseware [10]. On a similar note, recent work by Takahashi suggests a methodology for providing robust modalities, but does not offer an implementation [9]. Clearly, if throughput is a concern, our methodology has a clear advantage. A recent unpublished undergraduate dissertation [22] proposed a similar idea for kernels [1, 9, 16, 17].
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I was about to say there was a disagreement in number, but then I realised that "the refinement" is the referent (not the correct term, I'm sure) for "which embodies", not "superpages".
Posted by: Sili
| June 10, 2009 4:47 PM
The references are my favourite part of the paper, and even if the referee's eyes glazed over reading the rest of the paper, a 2005 collaboration between Alan Turing and Timothy Leary should pique some curiosity. I suspect that the "Lee, X." of reference 10 is Xah Lee, which would make SCIGen even more awesome.
Posted by: mds | June 10, 2009 4:59 PM
"Lee, X."
...
BWAH HA HA HA HA
(Now I have some nasally extruded coffee to mop up.)
Posted by: Brian | June 10, 2009 6:37 PM
And you toss in a rather obscure Isaac Asimov reference in the title as well....
Posted by: G Barnett | June 10, 2009 7:39 PM
To give the late Dr. Asimov the credit he was due, at least HE got an offer to be paid for having his nonsense published, rather than having to pay himself.
Posted by: abb3w | June 11, 2009 1:35 PM
And speaking of references, there is also this gem:
If the journal title wasn't a tip-off, the mention of vacuum tubes and VoIP in the same sentence should have been. Not to mention that we are way out of Dr. Chomsky's areas of expertise here.
Posted by: Eric Lund | June 12, 2009 11:17 AM