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<span
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Eighth Annual SIGBOVIK Conference will take place at Carnegie
Mellon University on </span><span
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April 1, 2014</span><span
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in Rashid Auditorium (GHC 4401). The Special Interest Group on
Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference which specializes
in lesser-known research areas such as:</span> <br>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Unintentional
type theory,</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Hierarchical
feline stacking,</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">n-dimensional
polytope schemes,</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Comestibility
theory,</span></p>
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stupidity,</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Disease
and underwear modeling,</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">And
many more!</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">For
the time being, the submission deadline is </span><span
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7</span><span
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Everyone is encouraged to submit, regardless of affiliation,
discipline, rationality, or goodwill.</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">To
get your creative juices flowing, we’ll be holding several hack
sessions leading up to the deadline. Our first will be </span><span
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February 8, 2014</span><span
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in GHC 8115 from 12:00-5:00pm.<br>
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disinformation is available at our website:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="http://sigbovik.org/2014/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">http://sigbovik.org/2014</span></a><span
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Submissions
are already open on EasyChair:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigbovik2014"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigbovik2014</span></a><span
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If
you’re interested in SIGBOVIK, we recommend subscribing to our
low-traffic mailing list:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce</span></a></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">If
you have no idea what’s going on:</span></p>
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style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">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.</span></p>
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