Attack of the Nerds II

The hackers from MIT strike - not against Caltech in retaliation - but to make a point about worthless scientific conferences.

....the graduate students involved were sick and tired of receiving computer generated spam soliciting entries to what they felt were questionable academic conferences.

Jeremy Stribling, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said yesterday that he and two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with nonsensical text, charts and diagrams.

(Blogger News Network)

Scientific conference spams ?? - you better beleive it - I keep receiveing about 2-3 such invitations every week to Biotech related conferences. Read more about it here.