The end of academia

If this is not a hoax, then I must agree with Cory Doctorow -- it IS the funniest thing ever.

Apparently, some clever MIT graduate students wrote a program that randomly generates computer science articles. According to their website, one of their random papers was accepted by a computer science conference!

FYI: There are some grievously absurd claims in this paper (as you would expect -- it's random). Here are the biggest hints as to the paper's bogosity:

...We question the need for digital-to-analog converters...
...We hope that this section sheds light on Juris Hartmanis’s development of the UNIVAC computer in 1995...
...We ran a deployment on the NSA’s planetary-scale overlay network to disprove the mutually largescale behavior of exhaustive archetypes...
...von Neumann machines no longer affect performance...

Clearly, if someone with a modicum of computer science experience had spent five minutes to read the thing, it never would have been accepted.