"Harry's a senior computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He's a well respected member of the community, and really nice! Long before SIGBOVIK the conference existed, he was already doing pioneering research in all sorts of cutting edge topics like Psychic Linguistics, Human-Computer Counteraction, and Green Computing. The inaugural conference was actually in celebration of his 0x40th birthday, and it was such a success they decided to continue with it. Though I hear it was pretty hard convincing Harry to let them keep naming the conference after him. He's actually a pretty humble guy."