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p2pnet.net News:- Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy
That’s the header for a Massachussetts Insitute of Technology paper accepted by the World Multiconference on Systematics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), a Florida computer science event slated for July.
World Multiconference on Systematics, Cybernetics and Informatics? It looks impressive and, well, learned. So Rooter, etc, etc, was just the thing.
Unfortunately, however, it’s a random collection of charts, diagrams and obtuse lines such as “We implemented our scatter/gather I/O server in Simula-67″ generated by a computer program written by three MIT students, says Guardian Unlimited, going on:
“MIT graduate student Jeremy Stribling, 25, and two friends created the fake paper because they were tired of being sent emails by WMSCI organisers soliciting admissions.”
Stribling was ‘definitely surprised’ when Rooter was accepted.
But “we kind of suspected they had low standards,” the report quotes him as saying. “They ask for submissions, but once you get in you have to pay a $400 (£220) fee to have your paper published.”
As of 4/15/2005 7:37:38 pm, “the conference organizers had not rescinded their invitation to present the paper but one of the conference organizers, Nagib Callaos, said that there were a small number of papers accepted prior to review; the papers were being reviewed but the feedback had not been given as of the acceptance date,” says the Blogger News Network.
“Evidently as the paper had not yet been rejected by any of the three reviewers prior to the acceptance deadline they felt it was unfair to reject the paper. The conference itself takes no responsibility for a non reviewed paper, that responsibility lies with the author(s) of the paper.”
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See:-
Guardian Unlimited – Making a science out of applied idiocy, April 16, 2005
Blogger News Network – They Did It Again: Hoaxes, Computers and Academia, April 15, 2005
