From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Wed Feb 5 11:17:39 2020 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2020 11:17:39 -0500 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2020 Call for Papers and Reviews Message-ID: To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in Rashid Auditorium (GHC 4401). The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: Complexity practice, Highlight syntaxing, Multi-armed philanthropists, Connotational semantics, Science computers, Data of unusual size, And many more! The SIGBOVIK Organizing Committee is proud to announce that SIGBOVIK is the first conference to adopt a triple-blind peer review1 process. 1triple-blind peer review /?tr?pl-bla?nd pi?r r??vju?/ noun 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. 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. The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is February 28, 2020. Further disinformation is available at our website: http://sigbovik.org/2020 To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: 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 http://sigbovik.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Sat Feb 29 13:26:05 2020 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 13:26:05 -0500 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2020 Call for Papers and Reviews 2: Total Recall Message-ID: The submission deadline for SIGBOVIK 2020 has been extended to March 6! We definitely didn?t see this coming, god I hope it doesn?t happen again? --- To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in Rashid Auditorium (GHC 4401). The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: Complexity practice, Highlight syntaxing, Multi-armed philanthropists, Connotational semantics, Science computers, Data of unusual size, And many more! The SIGBOVIK Organizing Committee is proud to announce that SIGBOVIK is the first conference to adopt a triple-blind peer review1 process. 1triple-blind peer review /?tr?pl-bla?nd pi?r r??vju?/ noun 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. 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. The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is now March 6, 2020. Further disinformation is available at our website: http://sigbovik.org/2020 To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: 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 http://sigbovik.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 6 19:26:34 2020 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2020 19:26:34 -0500 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2020 Call for Papers and Reviews 3: Call Me Maybe? Message-ID: Hey! I just emailed you, and this is crazy, but? The submission deadline for SIGBOVIK 2020 has been extended to March 13! This is the final extension. We can?t extend it anymore since we anticipate something bad happening on Friday the 13th. --- To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in Rashid Auditorium (GHC 4401). The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: Complexity practice, Highlight syntaxing, Multi-armed philanthropists, Connotational semantics, Science computers, Data of unusual size, And many more! The SIGBOVIK Organizing Committee is proud to announce that SIGBOVIK is the first conference to adopt a triple-blind peer review1 process. 1triple-blind peer review /?tr?pl-bla?nd pi?r r??vju?/ noun 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. 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. The submission deadline for both papers and reviews is now March 13, 2020. Further disinformation is available at our website: http://sigbovik.org/2020 To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: 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 http://sigbovik.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 13 16:21:27 2020 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:21:27 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] Call for Papers, Reviews, Talks, and Answers 4: C[all]OVID-19 Update Message-ID: As expected, something bad did happen on Friday the 13th: since COVID-19 has decided to co-locate with, well, everything, SIGBOVIK 2020 will no longer be held in Rashid Auditorium! We?ve taken CMU?s advice on social distancing to heart and will have a virtual conference this year. In the spirit of minimizing bias, we will exercise a level of blindness. This means that authors (and non-authors) are encouraged to submit audio recordings of their talks; those that submit talks are also required at the same time to submit at least two audio recordings of their answers to (imagined) questions but we encourage five answers (details for submission will be up on our website [http://sigbovik.org/2020 ] shortly). On conference day, upon streaming a particular talk, we will blindly match questions from the audience to said answers. Lastly, the submission deadline (for papers, reviews, talks, AND answers) for SIGBOVIK 2020 has been extended to Friday, March 27! This really is the final extension this time, probably. Almost certainly. --- To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in [your current location]. The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: Complexity practice, Highlight syntaxing, Multi-armed philanthropists, Connotational semantics, Science computers, Data of unusual size, And many more! The SIGBOVIK Organizing Committee is proud to announce that SIGBOVIK is the first conference to adopt a triple-blind peer review1 process. 1triple-blind peer review /?tr?pl-bla?nd pi?r r??vju?/ noun 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. We encourage everyone to submit both papers, reviews, talks, and answers regardless of affiliation, discipline, rationality, or goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a five-minute (not ten!) presentation of their work. The submission deadline for both papers, reviews, talks, and answers is now March 27, 2020. Further disinformation is available at our website: http://sigbovik.org/2020 To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: 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 http://sigbovik.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 20 13:26:01 2020 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:26:01 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] Call for Papers, Reviews, Talks, and Answers 4.5: Update to the C[all]OVID-19 Update Message-ID: Details for submitting talks and answers (as well as papers and reviews) are now up at http://sigbovik.org/2020 . We especially encourage you to submit reviews?we need them now more than ever, and since our process is triple-blind, they?re easy to write! Remember that the submission deadline (for papers, reviews, talks, AND answers) for SIGBOVIK 2020 was extended to Friday, March 27! --- As expected, something bad did happen on Friday the 13th: since COVID-19 has decided to co-locate with, well, everything, SIGBOVIK 2020 will no longer be held in Rashid Auditorium! We?ve taken CMU?s advice on social distancing to heart and will have a virtual conference this year. In the spirit of minimizing bias, we will exercise a level of blindness. This means that authors (and non-authors) are encouraged to submit audio recordings of their talks; those that submit talks are also required at the same time to submit at least two audio recordings of their answers to (imagined) questions but we encourage five answers (details for submission will be up on our website [http://sigbovik.org/2020 ] shortly). On conference day, upon streaming a particular talk, we will blindly match questions from the audience to said answers. Lastly, the submission deadline (for papers, reviews, talks, AND answers) for SIGBOVIK 2020 has been extended to Friday, March 27! This really is the final extension this time, probably. Almost certainly. --- To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in [your current location]. The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: Complexity practice, Highlight syntaxing, Multi-armed philanthropists, Connotational semantics, Science computers, Data of unusual size, And many more! The SIGBOVIK Organizing Committee is proud to announce that SIGBOVIK is the first conference to adopt a triple-blind peer review1 process. 1triple-blind peer review /?tr?pl-bla?nd pi?r r??vju?/ noun 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. We encourage everyone to submit both papers, reviews, talks, and answers regardless of affiliation, discipline, rationality, or goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a five-minute (not ten!) presentation of their work. The submission deadline for both papers, reviews, talks, and answers is now March 27, 2020. Further disinformation is available at our website: http://sigbovik.org/2020 To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: 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 http://sigbovik.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 27 11:31:04 2020 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:31:04 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] Call for Talks, Answers, Reviews, and Papers 5: Epilogue Message-ID: Hello! We have one last (hmm...) deadline extension to make, which is definitely not due to the dearth of talks/reviews submitted. The submission deadline for talks (especially those) and reviews for SIGBOVIK 2020 has been extended to Monday, March 30! However, we would prefer you to register your talks at this form (listed on the website) on the original deadline (Friday, March 27 i.e. today), even if you don?t have any files to submit yet! The submission deadline for papers for SIGBOVIK 2020 is still Friday, March 27 (today)! --- To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 in [your current location]. The Special Interest Group on Harry Q. Bovik is a multidisciplinary conference dedicated to lesser-known research areas neglected by mainstream conferences, such as: Complexity practice, Highlight syntaxing, Multi-armed philanthropists, Connotational semantics, Science computers, Data of unusual size, And many more! The SIGBOVIK Organizing Committee is proud to announce that SIGBOVIK is the first conference to adopt a triple-blind peer review1 process. 1triple-blind peer review /?tr?pl-bla?nd pi?r r??vju?/ noun 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. We encourage everyone to submit both papers, reviews, talks, and answers regardless of affiliation, discipline, rationality, or goodwill. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not required) to give a five-minute (not ten!) presentation of their work. The submission deadline for papers for SIGBOVIK 2020 is still March 27, 2020. The submission deadline for talks, answers, and reviews for SIGBOVIK 2020 is now Monday, March 30. Further disinformation is available at our website: http://sigbovik.org/2020 To keep up with our announcements, subscribe to our low-traffic mailing list: https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sigbovik-announce If you have no idea what?s going on: 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 http://sigbovik.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Wed Apr 1 00:51:48 2020 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 00:51:48 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2020: It's Happening! Message-ID: To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fourteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place today (April 1st) at 5:00 PM EDT online. Please check http://sigbovik.org/2020 for links to our Zoom meeting as well as our YouTube live stream. --- If you have no idea what?s going on: 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 http://sigbovik.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: