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From The Guardian:
Bartneck [associate professor at the Human Interface Technology laboratory at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand] illustrated the paper – titled, again through autocorrect, “Atomic Energy will have been made available to a single source” – with the first graphic on the Wikipedia entry for nuclear physics.
He submitted it under a fake identity: associate professor Iris Pear of the US, whose experience in atomic and nuclear physics was outlined in a biography using contradictory gender pronouns.
The nonsensical paper was accepted only three hours later, in an email asking Bartneck to confirm his slot for the “oral presentation” at the international conference. https://www.theguardian.com/science...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
I agree with Professor Bartneck that this probably isn't a very good conference. :mrgreen:
Bartneck [associate professor at the Human Interface Technology laboratory at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand] illustrated the paper – titled, again through autocorrect, “Atomic Energy will have been made available to a single source” – with the first graphic on the Wikipedia entry for nuclear physics.
He submitted it under a fake identity: associate professor Iris Pear of the US, whose experience in atomic and nuclear physics was outlined in a biography using contradictory gender pronouns.
The nonsensical paper was accepted only three hours later, in an email asking Bartneck to confirm his slot for the “oral presentation” at the international conference. https://www.theguardian.com/science...medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
I agree with Professor Bartneck that this probably isn't a very good conference. :mrgreen: