<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on <b class="">Wednesday, April 1, 2020</b> in <b class="">Rashid Auditorium (GHC 4401)</b>. The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as:</div><ul class=""><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Complexity practice,</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Highlight syntaxing,</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Multi-armed philanthropists,</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Connotational semantics,</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Science computers,</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Data of unusual size,</li><li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">And many more!</li></ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">The SIGBOVIK Organizing Committee is proud to announce that SIGBOVIK is the first conference to adopt a triple-blind peer review<sup class="">1</sup> process.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><sup class="">1</sup><b class="">triple-blind peer review</b> /ˈtrɪpl-blaɪnd piːr rɪˈvjuː/</div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class=""> noun</i></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-size: 9px;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><ol class="MailOutline"><li class="">Scholarly peer review that minimizes bias by concealing not only the identities of the authors and reviewers from each other, but also by concealing the papers from the reviewers. Compare: single- and double-blind peer review.</li></ol></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">We encourage everyone to submit both papers and reviews, regardless of affiliation, discipline, rationality, or goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a ten-minute presentation of their work.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><b class="">The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is February 28, 2020</b>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Further disinformation is available at our website:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 121, 205);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="http://sigbovik.org/2020" class="">http://sigbovik.org/2020</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 121, 205);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline;" class=""><a href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce" class="">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">If you have no idea what’s going on:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">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 <a href="applewebdata://7FEE21A1-0490-459B-BADB-3CBA4D0BC517/%22" class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 121, 205);" class="">http://sigbovik.org</span></a>.</div></div></body></html>