random generation

I talked about the Sokal hoax a ways back... here's a little something a little more recent that is more or less related. A trio of MIT computer science graduate students created a program that would randomly generate a research paper. The trio submitted two of these computer generated papers to an academic conference and one entitled "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" was accepted for presentation.

Go here for the full-text article from BBC News about this newest academic hoax.