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A software-generated paper has been accepted in a Computer Science conference as well [1]. If anything, this is a problem that characterizes academia in general, not isolated parts of it. I understand that humanities-hating is an entertaining activity, but it's important to be aware that naive generalizations of a whole field have no basis in reality.

[1] http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/08/12/23/2321242/Sof...

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Wow, thanks for that link. IEEE seems to have taken the paper down: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/freesrchabstract.jsp?arnum...

but the Web still has it (PDF link): http://www.tektalk.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/herbert_sc...

and ACM still lists the reference (perhaps as a snub to IEEE): http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1469852

Amazing! The first line is: The synthesis of fiber-optic cables is a natural quagmire.

And then the first line of the second paragraph is: We prove that cache coherence and IPv7 are often incompatible.

Being accepted as a poster in a conference is a very different thing from being published in a journal, as the comments on the article you posted point out.

The actual difference depends on the journal, conference and field. In some fields (large parts of CS), the most prestigious conferences are more prestigious than most journals. OTOH, in biology, publishing in Cell or Nature may be career-changing.

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