[SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2024 Deadline Extension

[SIGBOVIK Announcements]

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 Friday'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, 22 March 2024.*

If you have already submitted a paper, this provides you with *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 *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. Further, anecdotal and (perhaps) scientific evidence 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.

Not to increase the pressure, but please note that over 5 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: 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 and Sentient AIs:

The eighteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie
Mellon University on Friday, April 5, 2024 in Rashid Auditorium (GHC 4401).
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,
   - Highlight syntaxing,
   - Multi-armed philanthropists,
   - Connotational semantics,
   - Science computers,
   - Data of unusual size,
   - And many more!

The submission deadline is March 15. Everyone is encouraged to submit,
regardless of affiliation, discipline, rationality, or goodwill. Authors of
accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a five minute
presentation of their work.

Further disinformation is available at our website:
http://sigbovik.org/2024

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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 sigbovik.org.
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