Comments on: Playful paper titles http://rossshannon.com/2009/05/28/playful-paper-titles/ Researchin' the day away... Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Sex it up: Alluring titles and other readership boosters « Publish or Perish http://rossshannon.com/2009/05/28/playful-paper-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-44137 Sex it up: Alluring titles and other readership boosters « Publish or Perish Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:49:32 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/?p=293#comment-44137 [...] how important are playful/sexy/witty titles? Of course there’s not one standard rule-of-thumb. It all depends on the type of media. [...] [...] how important are playful/sexy/witty titles? Of course there’s not one standard rule-of-thumb. It all depends on the type of media. [...]

]]> By: Dave http://rossshannon.com/2009/05/28/playful-paper-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-44124 Dave Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:15:19 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/?p=293#comment-44124 Another good one is "When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection" :-) Another good one is “When Zombies Attack!: Mathematical Modelling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection” :-)

]]> By: Ross http://rossshannon.com/2009/05/28/playful-paper-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-43790 Ross Fri, 29 May 2009 11:03:02 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/?p=293#comment-43790 Ha ha, yes. I love how the Chicken guy responds to the final question from the audience. Formal methods seems to be fertile ground for this kind of tomfoolery as well! Ha ha, yes. I love how the Chicken guy responds to the final question from the audience.

Formal methods seems to be fertile ground for this kind of tomfoolery as well!

]]> By: Mark http://rossshannon.com/2009/05/28/playful-paper-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-43789 Mark Fri, 29 May 2009 10:06:55 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/?p=293#comment-43789 On a slightly different tack, some of my favourite silly papers: Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk Paul Krugman, The Theory of Interstellar Trade http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf On a slightly different tack, some of my favourite silly papers:

Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken
http://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

Paul Krugman, The Theory of Interstellar Trade
http://www.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/interstellar.pdf

]]> By: rgrig http://rossshannon.com/2009/05/28/playful-paper-titles/comment-page-1/#comment-43788 rgrig Thu, 28 May 2009 22:48:57 +0000 http://rossshannon.com/?p=293#comment-43788 Google gives: http://kenn.frap.net/mm/moin.cgi/Funny_Paper_Titles (this is by a guy who went to the oregon summer school i kept advertising on the srg mailing list) http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2004/04/funny-paper-titles.html Julien is fond of how French name their tools: Coq, CDuce, etc. In a paper on the program verifier Jack that can use the Coq prover as a backend he wrote the section "Jack with Coq in Eclipse". Google gives:
http://kenn.frap.net/mm/moin.cgi/Funny_Paper_Titles (this is by a guy who went to the oregon summer school i kept advertising on the srg mailing list)
http://geomblog.blogspot.com/2004/04/funny-paper-titles.html

Julien is fond of how French name their tools: Coq, CDuce, etc. In a paper on the program verifier Jack that can use the Coq prover as a backend he wrote the section “Jack with Coq in Eclipse”.

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