How companies waste their money...

Source: the Associated Press

Recently, three MIT students tried an experiment.

They wrote a computer program that would generate a nonsensical paper.

The result was "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy."

Sounds impressive, right?

It's gibberish and fake.

The introduction to the paper reads:

Many scholars would agree that, had it not been for active networks, the simulation of Lamport clocks might never have occurred.

They, then, began submitting the paper to tech conferences to see if anyone would just accept without have read and tried to understand it.

Remember it's gibberish and it's supposed to be gibberish.

A month or so ago, they received a notice that their paper had been accepted for the Ninth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics which is taking place in July in Orlando.

Just think somewhere out there is a company that is paying for their employees to go to that conference.