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Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by chanux on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @12:30AM (#894058)
Reminds me the "Automatic CS paper generator"

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by sparky on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @02:17AM (#894140)
A friend wrote something similar for computer architecture and microarchitecture papers. It's eerie how many papers sound a lot like these lately..

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~waterman/bs.html

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://adrian.gimp.org/cgi-bin/sub.cgi

Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by pmorici on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @08:59AM (#894537)
Yes but this one is from Dr. Comer a well known computer science professor. http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/dec/
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by prakash on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @02:55AM (#894163)
Reminds me of Dack's Bullshit generator for Resume's - http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by __ on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @11:27PM (#893967)
I suppose this is the academic equivalent of http://classnamer.com/.
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by lamby on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @07:21AM (#894403)
You can have some fun building your own generators with "polygen", an EBNF-based generator written in OCaml.
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by the_real_r2d2 on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @07:31AM (#894413)
A few years ago this could have been useful for me. I am always late to find the good stuff.
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by DanielStraight on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @11:02PM (#893919)
I love it.
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by owinebarger on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @11:08PM (#893931)
It's the "literature review" that kills.
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by coolnewtoy on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @09:56AM (#894636)
It's the literature review and six drafts of the paper only to find your advisor thinks your topic is no good. That kills.
Re:A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Top... by DanielStraight on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @11:14PM (#893937)
I wonder who will be the first to find an exact match with some academic paper.