Paris - Publisher of science journals Springer said Thursday it would scrap 16 papers from its archives after they were revealed to be computer-generated gibberish. The fake papers had been submitted to conferences on computer science and engineering whose proceedings were published in specialised, subscription-only publications, Springer said. The programme cranks out impressive-looking studies stuffed with randomly-selected computer and engineering terms. One example generated by SCIgen: Constant-time technology and access points have garnered great interest from both futurists and physicists in the last several years. After years of extensive research into superpages, we confirm the appropriate unification of 128-bit architectures and checksums.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Feb 2014 04:48:59 +0000
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