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July 29, 2005

The creators of
a computer program that randomly generates Computer Science papers successfully got a randomly generated paper into a conference. Thanks to donations from visitors to their web site, they raised the money to attend the conference. Once their web site was discovered, their registration was refunded. So they used the money to set up at the same hotel as the conference and present three randomly generated papers. See the video.