IEEE fails Turing Test

[JeffM]

Herbert Schlangemann (the nom de plume of a computer),
submitted the paper "Towards the Simulation of E-commerce"
to the 2008 International Conference
on Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Despite being complete jibberish
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/23/2321242&mode=nested&threshold=5#26221015
it was accepted--apparently without anyone reading it.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/23/2321242&mode=nested&threshold=5#26221917

In fairness, the conference is *sponsored* by IEEE.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/23/2321242&mode=nested&threshold=5#26220683

 

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Promote both students to immediate PhD status, for two reasons:
I. Actually having a sense of humor
II. Being smart enough to understand and game the system

My next question, was the reviewer in on it?

Steve Roberts