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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/