"[S]tudents Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a program to generate a nonsense paper.

Starting with skeleton sentences, pools of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and a random assortment of computer science jargon, the program produced a grammatically correct yet utterly nonsensical paper titled: Rooter: a methodology for the typical unification of access points and redundancy. 'This isn't artificial intelligence, it's the dirt-simplest way we could think to do this,' Stribling says.

The conference organisers say that the paper was sent to human reviewers, who never commented on it, so it ended up being automatically accepted."
New Scientist: Randomly-generated 'scientific paper' accepted, 23 april 2005

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