In 2005, MIT students developed (the super fun to use) SCIgen, a program which throws random, jargon-laden sentences together to produce documents that seem like computer-science papers.The ...

If writing scholarly computer science papers is something on which you’re reviewed at the end of the year, have we got a site for you. Unless, of course, you enjoy writing them, then by all ...

The fact that LLMs are used to summarize or review academic papers is itself a problem, as noted by Timothée Poisot, ...

Fill a paper with gobbledygook, add some fake charts, slap on a title dense with highfalutin scientific jargon, and -- voilà! --- a highfalutin conference may actually accept it.

The promise of practical results—of solvable problems—is one of the things that first lured Simons to computer science, in the early 1970s. She was one of just a few women in UC Berkeley’s ...

He sent the paper to a cryptography mailing list, and thus bitcoin—and the blockchain—were born. Ten years later, an entire cryptocurrency industry valued at $300 billion has bloomed from ...

The Allen Institute study analyzed more than 2.87 million computer science papers published between 1970 and 2018, using first names as a proxy for the gender of each author.

More than 120 bogus scientific articles have been published in peer-reviewed publications) from 2008 to 2013, according to computer scientist Cyril Labbé, confirming suspicions that sometimes ...