SIGBOVIK 2026

April 10, 2026  5:00PM—8:00PM

Location:
In Person (right now) - Rashid Auditorium, Gates Hillman 4401

Friday, April 10, 2026, 5 – 8pm

To friends and foes from all around, our colleagues borne of flesh and knowing silicon,

I bid thee warning:
The beast, it stirs, and once again, SIGBOVIK be upon us.
Rashid Auditorium, The Universitie Carnegie-Mellon.
April 10, 5PM Eastern Time, til’ nothing’s left to bear.
(and, hopefully, live on YouTube. We’ll get back to you on that.)

Our 20th colloquium of all the greatest living minds, on topics ranging from..
  • Algorithmic Complication
  • Zero-trust Whistleblowing
  • IA (Iowa)
  • Quantum Philanthropy
  • Science Computers
  • Connotative Semantics of Arcane Sigils
  • Arcane Sigils as a Service
  • … and many more!
A deadline looms, and close ahead →March the Fourth.  May it be the first of many.
Submit your papers, whether you intend to give a presentation or not.

And to those with gifts more visual—a presentation, vid'eo, a demonstration, et cetera
who wish to grace our stage but pen no paper:  fear not!
Your moment comes. We shall unveil a path for thee anon.

Assist us in a fun evening of Scientography, Gistaculation, and other %00%00%00%00%00%00%00.

For those not in the know…
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 published proceedings and live talks, and everyone is welcome to participate. All subjects are welcome, although our audience is primarily made up of computer scientists. The best way to get a feel for SIGBOVIK is to look at our past proceedings, which you can find at sigbovik.org.

We celebrate his name, BOVIK

Livestream for ye who can't make it in person.
 

Event Type: Colloquium
Room Number: In Person (right now)
Building: Rashid Auditorium, Gates HIllman 4401
Affiliations: Computer Science Department (CSD), Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII), Language Technologies Institute (LTI), Machine Learning Department (MLD), Ray and Stephanie Lane Computational Biology Department (CBD), Robotics Institute (RI), Software and Societal Systems Department (S3D)
Organization(s): School of Computer Science

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