* SCIgen, a computer program that randomly generates computer science research papers

* SCIgen, a program that generates nonsense research papers

SCIgen is a program created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that randomly generates nonsense in the form of computer science research papers, including graphs, diagrams, and citations.

* In 2008, after receiving a series of Call-for-Paper e-mails, a couple of students used the SCIgen computer program to generate a false scientific paper titled Towards the Simulation of E-Commerce, using " Herbert Schlangemann " as the author.

WMSCI attracted publicity of a less favorable sort in 2005 when three graduate students at MIT succeeded in getting a paper accepted as a " non-reviewed paper " to the conference that had been randomly generated by a computer program called SCIgen.

In 2005 a paper generated by SCIgen, Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy, was accepted as a " non-reviewed " paper to the 2005 World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics and the authors were invited to speak.

WMSCI withdrew their invitation, but the SCIgen team went anyway, renting space in the hotel separately from the conference and delivering a series of randomly generated talks on their own " track.

If instead of simply generating random characters one restricts the generator to a meaningful vocabulary and conservatively following grammar rules, like using a context-free grammar, then a random document generated this way can even fool some humans ( at least on a cursory reading ) as shown in the experiments with SCIgen, snarXiv, and the Postmodernism Generator.

The authors of SCIgen described their hoax on their website, and it soon received great publicity when picked up by Slashdot.

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