[SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2022 Final-final-really-final-Deadline-Extension.pdf

[SIGBOVIK Announcements]

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.


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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:

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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
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigbovik2022>.

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
<http://sigbovik.org/2022>, 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.
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