Sigbovik 2007 Proceedings a Message from the Program Committee

The Association for Computational Heresy Special Special Interest Group (ACH SIGBOVIK) on Harry Q. Bovik's 6th Binarennial Workshop about Symposium on Robot Dance Party of Conference in Celebration of Harry Bovik's birthday has a rich and noble legacy. We, the current members of the program committee were delighted to discover this legacy as we made it up rooted through the files of the SIGBOVIK Ministry of History, writing this introduction. The first SIGBOVIK Conference was held on young Harry Bovik's first birthday in 1942. It was a brief affair, as all of the attendees had short, childish attentions spans. This has not changed. This was the occasion of Fred Hacker's famous talk, Waaaah: Want Bottle. This talk set a precedent for SIGBOVIK's level of discourse through the years. The SIGBOVIK Conference was not held on Harry's second and fourth birthdays. These are known colloquially as the dark years. Harry was going through a phase at the time. This phase went on for six years. Even then, Harry had a long-term approach that would serve him well in his research. SIGBOVIK IV: BOVIKMANIA was a wild affair. Chuckles the Clown's keynote was interrupted by what records describe only as The Cake Incident. Records are unclear about the nature of this incident, but we think it is safe to say it involved cake. This conference also marked Harry Bovik and Fred Hacker's first public feud, signified by a pair of position papers titled Fred Hacker is a doodyhead and Takes one to know one. The fifth SIGBOVIK symposium helped establish the conference as the foremost venue for computer science research and Harry Bovik himself as its brightest star, noted for his clever ideas and stunning seventies wardrobe. Of the eighteen presenters, seventeen went on to win Turing awards. The other was current Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. However, the spotlight was stolen by Harry himself who submitted an astonishing thirty-two papers to the conference in honor of his age. Each was a veritable oyster's pearl of brilliance. Unfortunately, they were lost in an accident involving three radishes, four peeled carrots, six celery sticks, and a cuisinart machine. Demoralized, Harry never replicated those results. Computer Science still has not recovered from this loss. This brings us to up to date, ready for the sixth SIGBOVIK Conference and Harry's sixty-fourth birthday. The minds behind this year's crop of SIGBOVIK submissions are so bright, they …