This CNN report describes a recent variant of the Sokal Social Text hoax. This time, the accepted paper was auto-generated by a pseudo-scientific gibberish engine.

The conference organisers accepted the paper on a “non-reviewed” basis — the reviewers didn’t get their review in on time, but the paper was accepted anyway.

Despite the results by Ken Thompson, we can disconfirm that expert systems can be made amphibious, highly-available, and linear-time.