] In a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts
] Institute of Technology, a bunch of computer-generated
] gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been
] accepted at a scientific conference.

] "Rooter" features such mind-bending gems as: "the model
] for our heuristic consists of four independent components:
] simulated annealing, active networks, flexible modalities,
] and the study of reinforcement learning" and "We implemented
] our scatter/gather I/O server in Simula-67, augmented with
] opportunistically pipelined extensions."

] The students were soliciting cash donations so they could
] attend the conference and give what Stribling billed as a
] "completely randomly-generated talk, delivered entirely
] with a straight face."
]
] They exceeded their goal, with $2,311.09 cents from 165 donors.

Everyone loves a good prank!

CNN.com - MIT students pull prank on conference - Apr 14, 2005