Dishonesty in Academia? Say It Ain't So!
"A group of American students revealed last week that they had submitted an "academic paper" consisting of computer-generated gobbledegook to a scientific conference - and it was accepted. The students were convinced that many academic conferences were only concerned with profiting from the submission fee for papers. The ninth World Multi-Conference on Systematics, Cybernetics and Informatics proved them right by welcoming their creation, Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy."
"To produce the paper, the students set a computer to spew out an impressive-looking mulch of complicated words and 'context-free grammar.'"
