Actually a search start-up True Knowledge (Score 1)

The 'scientists' are actually employees of trueknowledge.com - an AI question answering start-up. The experiment was a fun bit of work that dropped out of compiling hundreds of millions of machine understandable facts about the world. The original story is here: http://blog.trueknowledge.com/2010/11/most-boring-day-in-history.html