{"id":269,"date":"2005-04-15T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T22:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netmesh.info\/jernst\/uncategorized\/computer-generated-paper-accepted-at-a-conference-i-know-something-about"},"modified":"2005-04-15T14:48:51","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T22:48:51","slug":"computer-generated-paper-accepted-at-a-conference-i-know-something-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/computer-generated-paper-accepted-at-a-conference-i-know-something-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer-generated paper accepted at a conference I know something about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s personal news highlight, for me, was that:<\/p>\n

…a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference … the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

as reported by CNN<\/a>. This relates to me, for two reasons:<\/p>\n

My former boss Jürgen Bortolazzi<\/a>, a prolific author of (good!) research papers, used to joke that it wasn’t really him who wrote those papers but that he had developed a Prolog-based paper generator. It’s great to see that somebody actually developed such a thing, and it works!<\/p>\n

But closer to home, I know that conference! I had a paper there, a few years back, in fact even an invited paper! So I decided to travel to Florida and give a talk on it. And having done so, I remember very well that I turned around to my wife, who came with me for a brief vacation afterwards, saying: "what a waste of time" … maybe this was just the first known<\/i> computer-generated paper at that conference.<\/p>\n

I was laughing so hard yesterday, it simply had to happen, and it had to happen to that conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s personal news highlight, for me, was that: …a bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference … the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics as reported by CNN. This relates to me, for two reasons: My former boss Jürgen Bortolazzi, a prolific author of (good!)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}