<div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap">Once more!! This time with complete determination. <b>The SIGBOVIK deadline has been extended to April 1st. </b></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><br></b></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap">We managed to overcome our robot overlords and our website is now live as well: <a href="https://www.sigbovik.org/2022">https://www.sigbovik.org/2022</a>.</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap">God knows we can't extend beyond that as it will be hard to send a SIGBOVIK deadline extension on April 1st and make it sound serious. So, yes, this is and will be the final deadline! </span></font></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#ffffff" size="1">Plus I'll be at the White House on the 1st so won't be able to send that email anyhow even if I wanted to.</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap">--------------------------------------------------------</span></font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">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 Monday’s inconvenient deadline. However, the Association for Computational Heresy is more aware than any organization that great research cannot be rushed, and <span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> accepts only the greatest research (as indicated in confidence by our venerable originator, Harry Q. <span class="gmail-il">Bovik</span>). Consequently, to give you the time to ensure that your research is <b>great</b>, we are <b>extending the submission deadline to Friday, 1 April 2022.</b></span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">If you have already submitted a paper, this provides you with<b> over an entire week</b> 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 <span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> papers yet, this provides you with <b>over an entire week</b> to devise and submit a first paper! We urge you to consider how nice your CV would look with one or more <span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> papers, especially if they receive one of our numerous awards. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">Anecdotal and scientific evidence from Earth Dimension C-137 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. So, now is your chance to shine.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">Not to increase the pressure, but please note that over 15 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.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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 look forward to your submissions! More information can be found on our website in the near future:</span><a href="http://sigbovik.org/" target="_blank" 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://<span class="gmail-il">sigbovik</span>.org/</span></a></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">In the unlikely event that you missed our original call for papers, you can find it below:</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">------------------------------------------</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">To All Students, Faculty, Staff, Rats of GHC, and Sentient AIs:</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">The sixteenth annual <span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on </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">Friday, April 8, 2022 at Rashid Auditorium (and over THE INTERNET)</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">. The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. <span class="gmail-il">Bovik</span> is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as:</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">   - Complexity practice,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">   - Software theorizing,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">   - Multi-armed philanthropists,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">   - Connotational semantics,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">   - Computer-computer interaction,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">   - Data of unusual size,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">   - And many more!</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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 encourage everyone to submit both papers and reviews, regardless of affiliation, discipline, irrationality, or lack of goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a ten-minute presentation of their work. </span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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 all know you’ve been diligently working on your <span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> submissions over Spring Break.</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"> The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is March 21st. Submit them on our uncomfortably </span><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigbovik2022" target="_blank" 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">easychair</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">Due to its immense success last year, we will again be using our innovative *triple-blind* peer review process: In addition to concealing reviewers and authors from each other, the papers will also be concealed from the reviewers.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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 will be available on </span><a href="http://sigbovik.org/2022" target="_blank" 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">our website</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, once we figure out how to overcome our robot overlords.</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce" target="_blank" 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/<span class="gmail-il">sigbovik</span>-announce</span></a></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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">If you have no idea what’s going on:</span></p><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);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"><span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> 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. <span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> has both 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 <span class="gmail-il">SIGBOVIK</span> is to look at our past proceedings, which you can find at</span><a href="http://sigbovik.org./" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><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://<span class="gmail-il">sigbovik</span>.org.</span></a></p></div>