The Mysterious Scientist

Sunday, July 22. 2007

Today there was some rich spam in my filters. Addressed to someone named "a8f0e" it said:

Based on your excellent publication record, we are pleased to invite you
to submit a paper to one of the following multi, inter, and trans
disciplinary conferences

I don't know anybody here by the name of "a8f0e", and google could not find a publication record either.

What google could find was that the conference this was for, "VIPSI", has already accepted a SCIGen paper, the infamous generator for important looking but completely meaningless reasearch papers.

On the weblog entry above, a "Prof. V. Milutinovic." defends the conference. I believe that VIPSI is a real conference when he shows me the "excellent publication record" for Mr. or Ms. a8f0e.

Posted by Alexander von Below in News at 07:51 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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