CS Paper Prank
A bunch of MIT students got together and wrote a program that generates computer science papers, complete with graphs, figures and references. Having generated a paper, they submitted it to a conference taking place in July in Florida and got accepted!
Their website features the generator, so that you can make your own random CS papers, and their correspondence with the organizers of the conference.
Great fun!
SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator
They even made BBC News.
Thanks to Ottar for sending me this!
April 22nd, 2005 at 8:19 pm
Even made Icelandic news
Morgunblaðið
April 24th, 2005 at 12:56 pm
Russian news too
http://www.lenta.ru/news/2005/04/16/hoax/