wait, are people submitting randomly generated papers to more conferences..?

[ephermata]

This popped up while searching for "dogfooding the heuristic" -- a phrase from the randomly generated hoax paper created by the SCIgen program of Stribling, Krohn, and Aguayo. (See http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/Read more... )

Comments

[arvindn]

The best part is it can be purchased for only $30!

[kragen]

I wonder if we could use more of these, in order to distinguish conferences that peer-review papers from conferences that don't.

[naturalborn]

Clearly it's a hoax. Deployed algorithms never take n! time.

Seriously though, is there a plural of 'epistemologies'? Isn't that like a plural of 'mathematics'? I think I've seen it pluralized in supposedly real papers, but could never parse what, if anything, they meant.