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Some MIT students apparently wrote a computer program that generates academic writing, and got a paper full of meaningless gibberish accepted at a forthcoming technology conference. The paper is entitled, "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy." From CNN.com:

"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.

Hmm, I wonder if the program can generate humanities papers as well.