<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-5e504d95-7fff-a359-f795-5b97c79e365c"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To All Students, Sentient AI or otherwise:</span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f1079b56-7fff-dca0-33bc-e5c4a125321e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Do you like non-serious research? What about furniture such as chairs? Choosing and “earning” the honorific/title of your dreams? PCs and/or Macs? Do we have a PC (proceedings committee) for you! SIGBOVIK is recruiting various chairs for the 2021 year! Consider the fantastic benefits you would receive:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pros:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Goes great on CVs</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Goes great on RCS, git, or whatever other system you prefer instead</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Comes with a free contractual obligation to only say nice things about Harry Q. Bovik in perpetuity</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">People will understand when you miss that paper deadline you were targeting</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Sense of responsibility and belonging</span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cons:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Everyone will expect you to have a great sense of humor</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Everyone will think you are (part of?) a joke</span><br></li><li><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Sense of responsibility and belonging</span></li></ul><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are currently recruiting the following chairs. To apply, simply send us an email with your name and qualifications (pictures of cash bribes optional).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:11pt;white-space:pre-wrap">Tweet Chair — Sits on the keyboard making comical commentary in 280 characters or less</span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Website Chair — Sits on the web and corrects all of the links that incorrectly point to the previous year</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Awards Chair — Sits on the beautifully-designed awards, refusing to give them out (experience with clipart a bonus!)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Chair — Sits on the online conference platform of their choice and dictates the order of talks/comedic interludes</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Moderation Chair — Sits on the in-conference chat and rules it with a (moderately) iron fist</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Endowed Chair in Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film — Sits on some other PC</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are also happy to explore the cutting edge of new furniture if you </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">saw</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> this and thought of some other way you could contribute.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reminder that papers and reviews are due on March 12th! This deadline will definitely not get extended exactly two more times!</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-75a3a90c-7fff-6b0c-98eb-952ba809e6ef"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Further disinformation is available on our website:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://sigbovik.org/2021" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://sigbovik.org/202</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,121,205);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;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:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have no idea what’s going on:</span></p><br><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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 </span><a href="http://sigbovik.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://sigbovik.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>