Getting a research paper accepted at a conference or journal can be a very funny process, if you don’t take it seriously. Politics, abused-postgraduates forced to review papers they don’t understand, senior academics who don’t care and who are obliged to review papers they don’t understand and so on, make modern academia the surreal experience it is. Some of us at Imperial, have been joking about having an automated paper generator for many years. Well, it seems some guys at MIT did it and one of their ‘generated’ papers was accepted as a ‘non-reviewed paper’ at a conference. :)