 LICS was originally sponsored solely by the IEEE, but as of the 2014 founding of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation LICS has become the flagship conference of SIGLOG, under the joint sponsorship of ACM and IEEE.Since the first installment in 1988, the cover page of the conference proceedings has featured an artwork entitled "Irrational Tiling by Logical Quantifiers", by Alvy Ray Smith.Since 1995, each year the "Kleene award" is given to the best student paper.