Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top...
by bbg on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @03:28AM
(#894198)
I just note that the link below, a subdivision name generator, submitted (by someone else!) a few days ago, got killed after being quickly upvoted to the front page. I can't find the HN link -- maybe it no longer exists -- but commenters suggested the page wouldn't even have been noteworthy in 1998, etc. I thought the tiny app was brilliant recognition of a formulaic part of our linguistic world.
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~waterman/bs.html
http://adrian.gimp.org/cgi-bin/sub.cgi