<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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">The submission deadline for SIGBOVIK 2020 has been extended to March 6!</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">We definitely didn’t see this coming, god I hope it doesn’t happen again…</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">---</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Complexity practice,</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Highlight syntaxing,</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Multi-armed philanthropists,</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Connotational semantics,</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Science computers,</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Data of unusual size,</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">And many more!</li></ul><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup class="">1</sup><b class="">triple-blind peer review</b> /ˈtrɪpl-blaɪnd piːr rɪˈvjuː/</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><i class=""> </i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><i class=""> noun</i></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-size: 9px;"> </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is now March 6, 2020</b>.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">Further disinformation is available at our website:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 121, 205);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://sigbovik.org/2020" class="">http://sigbovik.org/2020</a></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 121, 205);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">If you have no idea what’s going on:</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">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 class="" style="color: rgb(0, 121, 205);">http://sigbovik.org</span></a>.</div></body></html>