From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Mon Jan 24 14:54:46 2022 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:54:46 -0600 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2022 Call for Chairs Message-ID: To All Students, Sentient AI or Otherwise: Do you like non-serious research? What about furniture such as chairs? Choosing and ?earning? the honorific/title of your dreams? PCs and/or Macs? Do we have a PC (program committee) for you! SIGBOVIK is recruiting various chairs for the 2022 year! Unlike other years, we are also recruiting the illustrious SIGBOVIK *general chair *through this email. Like other years, the main job of the *general chair* is sending this email (so maybe you can send it again if you end up being the *general chair*). Consider the fantastic benefits you would receive: But first, let me sell you on being the *general chair* of SIGBOVIK, which is, above all, the chair that we currently need occupied the most: Probably the most compelling reason to become the *general chair* of SIGBOVIK is that you can claim that *satirical, seriously-executed research* is your "thing". This has a myriad of benefits. For example, imagine that you have recently submitted the results of your last year of work to a conference, and the reviewers say that your paper is "awful" or "bad", possibly in other terms?in most circumstances, for most researchers, this would make you feel *bad.* But as a *satirical researcher*, you know that your work isn't "bad", it's just that they didn't *get it.* The work was *satire.* They don't *understand* that your work is not *serious*, it's just *seriously-executed, *and *seriously-executed* to be a valuable *critique* of the sort of research often done in that particular field. As the *general chair* of SIGBOVIK, you can say: look, maybe my research is a *joke*, but that was *the point*. I even ran a *joke conference, *I wrote the *joke* foreword to the* serious* proceedings and emceed it on Twitch. Whether or not your research is well-received, you can always come up with a post-hoc explanation that it was actually *satire.* And this makes you feel better, the unappreciated comedic genius that you are. Obviously nobody would take your "satire" claim seriously without this credential, *i.e.*, having been the *general chair* of SIGBOVIK. With the pros [0] about the *general chair* out of the way (there are no cons), here are more general (!) pros and cons applicable to the other types of chairs: Pros: - Goes great on CVs - Goes great on RCS, git, or whatever other system you prefer instead - Comes with a free contractual obligation to only say nice things about Harry Q. Bovik in perpetuity - People will understand when you miss that paper deadline you were targeting - May be considered "departmental service" - Sense of responsibility and belonging Cons: - Everyone will expect you to have a great sense of humor - Everyone will think you are (part of?) a joke - Sense of responsibility and belonging Other than the *general chair*, we are currently recruiting the following chairs. To apply (including to be the *general chair*), simply send us an email with your name and qualifications (NFT and/or pictures of cash bribes optional). *General Chair* ? Sits on all the credit for the conference when in reality other people set up most of the things Tweet Chair ? Sits on the keyboard making comical commentary in 280 characters or less Art Chair ? Sits on the cover of the SIGBOVIK proceedings Website Chair ? Sits on the web and corrects all of the links that incorrectly point to the previous year Awards Chair ? Sits on the beautifully-designed awards, refusing to give them out (experience with clipart a bonus!) Conference Chair ? Sits on the online conference platform of their choice and dictates the order of talks/comedic interludes Moderation Chair ? Sits on the in-conference chat and rules it with a (moderately) iron fist Endowed Chair in Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film ? Sits on some other PC Note: the *general chair* generally has to also serve as the chairs that were not found. We are also happy to explore the cutting edge of new furniture if you saw this and thought of some other way you could contribute. Further disinformation is available on our website: http://sigbovik.org To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: SIGBOVIK is an evening of tongue-in-cheek academic presentations. If we have a goal, it?s to poke fun at our fields and provide a venue for silly ideas with (often but not always) serious executions. SIGBOVIK has both a published proceedings and live talks, and everyone is welcome to participate in either or both of these. All subjects are welcome, although be advised that the primary audience is computer scientists. The best way to get a feel for SIGBOVIK is to look at our past proceedings, which you can find at http://sigbovik.org. [0] i.e., *prose*, ha! No wonder they let me write this email again. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Mon Mar 14 10:00:51 2022 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:00:51 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2022 Call for Papers and Reviews Message-ID: To All Students, Faculty, Staff, Rats of GHC, and Sentient AIs: The sixteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Friday, April 8, 2022. The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: - Complexity practice, - Software theorizing, - Multi-armed philanthropists, - Connotational semantics, - Computer-computer interaction, - Data of unusual size, - And many more! We encourage everyone to submit both papers and reviews, regardless of affiliation, discipline, irrationality, or lack of goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a ten-minute presentation of their work. We all know you?ve been diligently working on your SIGBOVIK submissions over Spring Break. *The initial submission deadline for both papers and reviews is March 21st *(but of course we'll extend it knowing that everybody is lazy)*.* Submit them on our uncomfortably easychair . Due to its immense success last year, we will again be using our innovative *triple-blind* peer review process: In addition to concealing reviewers and authors from each other, the papers will also be concealed from the reviewers. Further disinformation will be available on our website , once we figure out how to overcome our robot overlords. To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: SIGBOVIK is an evening of tongue-in-cheek academic presentations. If we have a goal, it?s to poke fun at our fields and provide a venue for silly ideas with (often but not always) serious executions. SIGBOVIK has both published proceedings and live talks, and everyone is welcome to participate in either or both of these. All subjects are welcome, although be advised that the primary audience is computer scientists. The best way to get a feel for SIGBOVIK is to look at our past proceedings, which you can find at http://sigbovik.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 18 11:05:20 2022 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 11:05:20 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2022 Deadline Extension Message-ID: After receiving a great deal of feedback from around the internet (from sources such as email, Zoom, social media, and those who pushed to prod), it has come to our attention that many of you are rushing to complete your submissions before Monday?s inconvenient deadline. However, the Association for Computational Heresy is more aware than any organization that great research cannot be rushed, and SIGBOVIK accepts only the greatest research (as indicated in confidence by our venerable originator, Harry Q. Bovik). Consequently, to give you the time to ensure that your research is *great*, we are *extending the submission deadline to Friday, 25 March 2022.* If you have already submitted a paper, this provides you with* over an entire week* to devise and submit a second, third, or fourth paper. Remember that submitting additional papers can, to a rough mathematical approximation, only increase the probability of at least one of your papers being accepted! And if you (regrettably) haven't started any of your SIGBOVIK papers yet, this provides you with *over an entire week* to devise and submit a first paper! We urge you to consider how nice your CV would look with one or more SIGBOVIK papers, especially if they receive one of our numerous awards. Anecdotal and scientific evidence from Earth Dimension C-137 shows that successfully completing a paper after starting it late results in a beneficial feedback loop of increasingly hasty paper submissions reinforced by self-satisfaction in one's own last-minute paper-writing abilities. So, now is your chance to shine. Not to increase the pressure, but please note that over 4 papers have already been submitted this year. In other words, the number of papers this year is, to your knowledge, not even bounded above. The acceptance rate is expected to be highly competitive to maintain our status as a top-notch venue. This will help us close a deal with CSRankings.org (the #1 website for approximately listing universities by the population of their computer science departments) to count our venue. We look forward to your submissions! More information can be found on our website in the near future: http://sigbovik.org/ In the unlikely event that you missed our original call for papers, you can find it below: ------------------------------------------ To All Students, Faculty, Staff, Rats of GHC, and Sentient AIs: The sixteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Friday, April 8, 2022. The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: - Complexity practice, - Software theorizing, - Multi-armed philanthropists, - Connotational semantics, - Computer-computer interaction, - Data of unusual size, - And many more! We encourage everyone to submit both papers and reviews, regardless of affiliation, discipline, irrationality, or lack of goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a ten-minute presentation of their work. We all know you?ve been diligently working on your SIGBOVIK submissions over Spring Break. The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is March 21st. Submit them on our uncomfortably easychair . Due to its immense success last year, we will again be using our innovative *triple-blind* peer review process: In addition to concealing reviewers and authors from each other, the papers will also be concealed from the reviewers. Further disinformation will be available on our website , once we figure out how to overcome our robot overlords. To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: SIGBOVIK is an evening of tongue-in-cheek academic presentations. If we have a goal, it?s to poke fun at our fields and provide a venue for silly ideas with (often but not always) serious executions. SIGBOVIK has both published proceedings and live talks, and everyone is welcome to participate in either or both of these. All subjects are welcome, although be advised that the primary audience is computer scientists. The best way to get a feel for SIGBOVIK is to look at our past proceedings, which you can find at http://sigbovik.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 25 14:34:00 2022 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 14:34:00 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2022 Final-final-really-final-Deadline-Extension.pdf Message-ID: Once more!! This time with complete determination. *The SIGBOVIK deadline has been extended to April 1st. * We managed to overcome our robot overlords and our website is now live as well: https://www.sigbovik.org/2022. God knows we can't extend beyond that as it will be hard to send a SIGBOVIK deadline extension on April 1st and make it sound serious. So, yes, this is and will be the final deadline! Plus I'll be at the White House on the 1st so won't be able to send that email anyhow even if I wanted to. -------------------------------------------------------- After receiving a great deal of feedback from around the internet (from sources such as email, Zoom, social media, and those who pushed to prod), it has come to our attention that many of you are rushing to complete your submissions before Monday?s inconvenient deadline. However, the Association for Computational Heresy is more aware than any organization that great research cannot be rushed, and SIGBOVIK accepts only the greatest research (as indicated in confidence by our venerable originator, Harry Q. Bovik). Consequently, to give you the time to ensure that your research is *great*, we are *extending the submission deadline to Friday, 1 April 2022.* If you have already submitted a paper, this provides you with* over an entire week* to devise and submit a second, third, or fourth paper. Remember that submitting additional papers can, to a rough mathematical approximation, only increase the probability of at least one of your papers being accepted! And if you (regrettably) haven't started any of your SIGBOVIK papers yet, this provides you with *over an entire week* to devise and submit a first paper! We urge you to consider how nice your CV would look with one or more SIGBOVIK papers, especially if they receive one of our numerous awards. Anecdotal and scientific evidence from Earth Dimension C-137 shows that successfully completing a paper after starting it late results in a beneficial feedback loop of increasingly hasty paper submissions reinforced by self-satisfaction in one's own last-minute paper-writing abilities. So, now is your chance to shine. Not to increase the pressure, but please note that over 15 papers have already been submitted this year. In other words, the number of papers this year is, to your knowledge, not even bounded above. The acceptance rate is expected to be highly competitive to maintain our status as a top-notch venue. This will help us close a deal with CSRankings.org (the #1 website for approximately listing universities by the population of their computer science departments) to count our venue. We look forward to your submissions! More information can be found on our website in the near future: http://sigbovik.org/ In the unlikely event that you missed our original call for papers, you can find it below: ------------------------------------------ To All Students, Faculty, Staff, Rats of GHC, and Sentient AIs: The sixteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Friday, April 8, 2022 at Rashid Auditorium (and over THE INTERNET). The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: - Complexity practice, - Software theorizing, - Multi-armed philanthropists, - Connotational semantics, - Computer-computer interaction, - Data of unusual size, - And many more! We encourage everyone to submit both papers and reviews, regardless of affiliation, discipline, irrationality, or lack of goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a ten-minute presentation of their work. We all know you?ve been diligently working on your SIGBOVIK submissions over Spring Break. The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is March 21st. Submit them on our uncomfortably easychair . Due to its immense success last year, we will again be using our innovative *triple-blind* peer review process: In addition to concealing reviewers and authors from each other, the papers will also be concealed from the reviewers. Further disinformation will be available on our website , once we figure out how to overcome our robot overlords. To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: SIGBOVIK is an evening of tongue-in-cheek academic presentations. If we have a goal, it?s to poke fun at our fields and provide a venue for silly ideas with (often but not always) serious executions. SIGBOVIK has both published proceedings and live talks, and everyone is welcome to participate in either or both of these. All subjects are welcome, although be advised that the primary audience is computer scientists. The best way to get a feel for SIGBOVIK is to look at our past proceedings, which you can find at http://sigbovik.org. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Mon Apr 4 11:45:51 2022 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 11:45:51 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2019 Call for presentations Message-ID: Hello all students, faculty, staff, rats of GHC, and sentient AIs! SIGBOVIK approaches (April 8th at 5:30pm in Rashid Auditorium and... on THE INTERNET), and we're calling for presentations! Many people are saying, it will be yuge! If you submitted a paper for this year's proceedings, you are encouraged (though not required) to present it. If you didn't submit to this year's proceedings, you are also welcome (though not required) to present some other SIGBOVIK calibre research---we only accept the best research. Presentations should be about five-ten minutes long. Please register below by 5pm April 6th: https://forms.gle/XosQAUmk7LKMCHTW8 For more SIGBOVIK details, check out the website: http://sigbovik.org/2022 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Wed Jun 29 10:21:38 2022 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: 29 Jun 2022 17:21:38 +0300 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] Image License Inquiry for PA Images - Reference Number: 5792-8371-8306 Message-ID: An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: