A CS Research Topic Generator or How To pick A Worthy Topic In 10 Seconds

Reminds me the "Automatic CS paper generator"

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

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

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

Reminds me of Dack's Bullshit generator for Resume's - http://dack.com/web/bullshit.html

I suppose this is the academic equivalent of http://classnamer.com/.

You can have some fun building your own generators with "polygen", an EBNF-based generator written in OCaml.

A few years ago this could have been useful for me. I am always late to find the good stuff.

I love it.