SCIgen is a program that automatically generates a file that looks like a typical short research paper in Computer Science - that is, as long as you aren't paying close attention.
The process of writing a program that can do this is an interesting project, that tells you, at some basic level, perhaps what's not important in a paper! Anyone who is familiar with the stereotypical format, narrative and content of such a paper will find that the output of SCIgen does a good job of "mocking" them, up to a point.
SCIgen was written by Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, and Dan Aguayo, who were graduate students at MIT at the time.
Here is a "paper" I "wrote" in collaboration with Etta Cetera and Etaoin Shrdlu, titled Deconstructing the Location-Identity Split.
Anyone interested in churning out a few extra papers without any tedious brainwork should go to http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen