[SIGBOVIK] SIGBOVIK 2021 Call for Chairs

[SIGBOVIK Announcements]

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 <http://sigbovik.org/2021>1

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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.
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