From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Tue Feb 9 15:30:14 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:30:14 -0600 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021 Call for Papers and Reviews Message-ID: To All Students, Faculty, Staff, and Sentient AIs: The fifteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University Online on *Thursday, April 1, 2021* on *the internet*. 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, - Software theorizing, - Multi-armed philanthropists, - Connotational semantics, - Computer-computer interaction, - Data of unusual size, - And many more! 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 *March 12, 2021*. 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. Further disinformation is available on our website: http://sigbovik.org/202 1 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 Tue Mar 9 17:41:01 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 16:41:01 -0600 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021 Call for Chairs Message-ID: To All Students, Sentient AI or otherwise: 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: Pros: - Goes great on CVs - Goes great on RCS, git, or whatever other system you prefer instead - Comes with a free contractual obligation to only say nice things about Harry Q. Bovik in perpetuity - People will understand when you miss that paper deadline you were targeting - Sense of responsibility and belonging Cons: - Everyone will expect you to have a great sense of humor - Everyone will think you are (part of?) a joke - Sense of responsibility and belonging We are currently recruiting the following chairs. To apply, simply send us an email with your name and qualifications (pictures of cash bribes optional). Tweet Chair ? Sits on the keyboard making comical commentary in 280 characters or less Website Chair ? Sits on the web and corrects all of the links that incorrectly point to the previous year Awards Chair ? Sits on the beautifully-designed awards, refusing to give them out (experience with clipart a bonus!) Conference Chair ? Sits on the online conference platform of their choice and dictates the order of talks/comedic interludes Moderation Chair ? Sits on the in-conference chat and rules it with a (moderately) iron fist Endowed Chair in Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Film ? Sits on some other PC We are also happy to explore the cutting edge of new furniture if you saw this and thought of some other way you could contribute. Reminder that papers and reviews are due on March 12th! This deadline will definitely not get extended exactly two more times! Further disinformation is available on our website: http://sigbovik.org/202 1 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. 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URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 12 15:15:36 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:15:36 -0600 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021 Deadline Extension Message-ID: After receiving a great deal of feedback from around the internet (from sources such as email, Zoom, and social media), it has come to our attention that many of you are rushing to complete your submissions before this evening's inconvenient deadline. However, the Association for Computational Heresy is more aware than any organization that great research cannot be rushed, and SIGBOVIK accepts only the greatest research (as indicated in confidence by our venerable originator, Harry Q. Bovik [0]). Consequently, to give you the time to ensure that your research is *great*, we are *extending the submission deadline* to *Friday, 19 March 2021.* If you have already submitted a paper, this provides you with *nearly an entire week* 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 SIGBOVIK papers yet, this provides you with *nearly an entire week* to devise and submit a first paper! We urge you to consider how nice your CV would look with one or more SIGBOVIK papers, especially if they receive one of our numerous awards. Further, anecdotal and (perhaps) scientific evidence 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. Not to increase the pressure, but please note that over 3 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. We look forward to your submissions! More information can be found on our website: http://sigbovik.org/2021. In the unlikely event that you missed our original call for papers, you can find it below: ------------------------------------------ To All Students, Faculty, Staff, and Sentient AIs: The fifteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University Online on *Thursday, April 1, 2021* on *the internet*. 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, - Software theorizing, - Multi-armed philanthropists, - Connotational semantics, - Computer-computer interaction, - Data of unusual size, - And many more! 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 *March 12, 2021*. 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. Further disinformation is available on our website: http://sigbovik.org/202 1 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. ------------------------------------------ [0] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bovik/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Fri Mar 19 21:23:17 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 20:23:17 -0500 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021 Extended Deadline Extension Message-ID: Due to a misunderstanding with our editors, we mistakenly sent the wrong extended deadline. The actual deadline (the *extended* extended deadline [0]), is *Friday, 26 March 2021.* ------------------------------------------ After receiving a great deal of feedback from around the internet (from sources such as email, Zoom, and social media), it has come to our attention that many of you are rushing to complete your submissions before this evening's inconvenient deadline. However, the Association for Computational Heresy is more aware than any organization that great research cannot be rushed, and SIGBOVIK accepts only the greatest research (as indicated in confidence by our venerable originator, Harry Q. Bovik [0]). Consequently, to give you the time to ensure that your research is *great*, we are *extending the submission deadline* to *Friday, 26 March 2021.* *Friday, 19 March 2021.* If you have already submitted a paper, this provides you with *nearly an entire week* 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 SIGBOVIK papers yet, this provides you with *nearly an entire week* to devise and submit a first paper! We urge you to consider how nice your CV would look with one or more SIGBOVIK papers, especially if they receive one of our numerous awards. Further, anecdotal and (perhaps) scientific evidence 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. Not to increase the pressure, but please note that over 3 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. We look forward to your submissions! More information can be found on our website: http://sigbovik.org/2021. In the unlikely event that you missed our original call for papers, you can find it below: ------------------------------------------ To All Students, Faculty, Staff, and Sentient AIs: The fifteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place at Carnegie Mellon University Online on *Thursday, April 1, 2021* on *the internet*. 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, - Software theorizing, - Multi-armed philanthropists, - Connotational semantics, - Computer-computer interaction, - Data of unusual size, - And many more! 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 *March 12, 2021*. 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. Further disinformation is available on our website: http://sigbovik.org/202 1 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. ------------------------------------------ [0] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bovik/ ------------------------------------------ [0] Not to be confused with contrastive focus reduplication . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Sun Mar 21 19:15:50 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:15:50 -0500 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021 Call for Talks (& Papers) Message-ID: To All Students, Faculty, Staff, and Sentient AIs: Have you submitted a paper to SIGBOVIK 2021? Are you planning to submit one? If so, then you are strongly encouraged (but not required) to give a virtual talk about it! If you forgot to submit a paper to SIGBOVIK 2021 (mistakes happen!), you are also welcome (though not required) to present some research that *should have *been a SIGBOVIK 2021 paper! In light of this year's virtual venue (the internet), all talks will be pre-recorded videos. (Alternatively, they can be plain audio, and the video will be chosen at the organizers' discretion. The organizers will *not*, however, choose audio for plain videos.) Presenters are *also* required to submit audio responses to anticipated questions from the audience. We will do our best to match appropriate answers to questions, given the restriction that our triple-blind process precludes us from listening to the question before choosing the answer. Since the conference is on the internet this year, we will not be offering VGA nor HDMI hook-ups, nor chalkboards. You are welcome, however, to record yourself using your own chalkboard. The previous sentence applies both to recording yourself writing on a chalkboard and to recording yourself with a video-enabled smart chalkboard. Presentations should be no more than *five* minutes in length; excess time will be aggressively clipped. Unlike the time domain, we impose no restrictions on the frequency domain. All talks must be submitted by *March 28, 2021 *using our Highly Sophisticated Amazingly Serious Blind Talk Submission Form . As a reminder, *all papers must be submitted by **March 26, 2021. *This is the *final* deadline. Further disinformation is available on our website (but seriously, the deadlines here are final -- that is not disinformation): http://sigbovik.org/202 1 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 Tue Mar 30 15:01:52 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:01:52 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021 Slightly Delayed (By One Hour) Message-ID: Greetings avid fans of Bovik, For those of you who've already added SIGBOVIK to your calendars, this year's conference start time has been moved to *April 1 6pm EDT*. The stream location will be announced to the mailing list and linked on the website the day of. Jenny -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Thu Apr 1 08:49:48 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 08:49:48 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021: Happening Today! Message-ID: To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: The fifteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place *today (April 1st)* at *6:00 PM EDT online*. Please check http://sigbovik.org/2021 for links to the twitch 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: From sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu Thu Apr 1 17:27:54 2021 From: sigbovik-announce at lists.andrew.cmu.edu (SIGBOVIK Announcements) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2021 17:27:54 -0400 Subject: [SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021: Happening Today! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Happening in 30 minutes! On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 8:49 AM Jenny Lin wrote: > To All Students, Faculty, Staff and Sentient AIs: > > The fifteenth annual SIGBOVIK conference will take place *today (April > 1st)* at *6:00 PM EDT online*. Please check http://sigbovik.org/2021 for > links to the twitch 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: