SCIgen
| SCIgen | |
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| developer | Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn and Dan Aguayo |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| operating system | u. a. GNU / Linux , FreeBSD |
| programming language | Pearl |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| German speaking | No |
| pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen | |
SCIgen is a computer program that uses context-free grammar to produce nonsensical scientific publications on computer science . It generates all parts of the article, including graphics and sources. It was written for the amusement of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students .
Acceptance of the article
In 2005, an article generated with Scigen called "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" was submitted and accepted at the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI). However, after the incident was reported in the media, the article was dismissed. The program's authors rented a conference room in the hotel where the WMSCI was taking place and gave presentations on randomly generated slides. In January 2014, Springer and IEEE withdrew more than 120 articles, some of which had been generated with SCIgen, after being warned by the French scientist Cyril Labbé, who had written a program to detect such articles.
SCIpher
In 2015, on the 10th birthday of SCIgen, a steganography program was published, SCIpher, which encodes messages in requests for submission for conferences and also decodes them.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Holger Dambeck: Textgenerator: With nonsense paper for the symposium. In: Spiegel Online . July 25, 2005, accessed September 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Richard Van Noorden: Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers. In: Nature . February 25, 2014, accessed September 21, 2015 .
- ↑ Scipher - A Scholarly Message Encoder. Retrieved September 21, 2015 .