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"In coming weeks, proposed job cuts and restructures will be released for the Academic Portfolio, Research and Innovation Portfolio, the College of Science and Medicine, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

Australian National University announces first round of job cuts as part of effort to turn around financial issues
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries.

Do Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers Speak the Same Language?
Timo Kehrer, Robert Haines, Guido Juckeland, Shurui Zhou, David E. Bernholdt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02665

Do Research Software Engineers and Software Engineering Researchers Speak the Same Language?
Anecdotal evidence suggests that Research Software Engineers (RSEs) and Software Engineering Researchers (SERs) often use different terminologies for similar concepts, creating communication challenges. To better understand these divergences, we have started investigating how SE fundamentals from the SER community are interpreted within the RSE community, identifying aligned concepts, knowledge gaps, and areas for potential adaptation. Our preliminary findings reveal opportunities for mutual le…

Optimization for Semantic-Aware Resource Allocation under CPT-based Utilities
Symeon Vaidanis, Photios A. Stavrou, Marios Kountouris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04952

Optimization for Semantic-Aware Resource Allocation under CPT-based Utilities
The problem of resource allocation in goal-oriented semantic communication with semantic-aware utilities and subjective risk perception is studied here. By linking information importance to risk aversion, we model agent behavior using Cumulative Prospect Theory (CPT), which incorporates risk-sensitive utility functions and nonlinear transformations of distributions, reflecting subjective perceptions of gains and losses. The objective is to maximize the aggregate utility across multiple CPT-mode…

The people committed to DDoSing the #Apache #SpamAssassin RuleQA server seem to have substantial resources. I’ve blocked a lot of them, but they keep coming, asking about things like the May 7 2017 performance of a single rule in one contributor's stats. Not stuff real people want.
Of course…

Cross-Comparison of Neural Architectures and Data Sets for Digital Self-Interference Modeling
Gerald Enzner, Niklas Knaepper, Aleksej Chinaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03109

Cross-Comparison of Neural Architectures and Data Sets for Digital Self-Interference Modeling
Inband full-duplex communication requires accurate modeling and cancellation of self-interference, specifically in the digital domain. Neural networks are presently candidate models for capturing nonlinearity of the self-interference path. This work utilizes synthetic and real data from different sources to evaluate and cross-compare performances of previously proposed neural self-interference models from different sources. The relevance of the analysis consists in the mutual assessment of meth…

You're not being forced to use AI because your boss thinks it will make you more productive. You're being forced to use AI because either your boss is invested in the AI hype and wants to drive usage numbers up, or because your boss needs training data from your specific role so they can eventually replace you with an AI, or both.
Either way, it's not in your interests to actually use it, which is convenient, because using it is also harmful in 4-5 different ways (briefly: resource overuse, data laborer abuse, commons abuse, psychological hazard, bubble inflation, etc.)
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🎉 Happy 10th anniversary to In The Field - the initiative showcasing the global #impact of #NRENs!
Now counting more than 480 stories from over 100 NRENs across the globe, #InTheField highlights the divers…

Efficient streaming dynamic mode decomposition
Aditya Kale, Marcos Netto, Xinyang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03770 https://arxiv…

Efficient streaming dynamic mode decomposition
We propose a reformulation of the streaming dynamic mode decomposition method that requires maintaining a single orthonormal basis, thereby reducing computational redundancy. The proposed efficient streaming dynamic mode decomposition method results in a constant-factor reduction in computational complexity and memory storage requirements. Numerical experiments on representative canonical dynamical systems show that the enhanced computational efficiency does not compromise the accuracy of the p…

For all the German speakers in my network: my research on spatial layouts and communication has been featured in a lovely and detailed article in the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit discussing the manifold relations between architecture and social outcomes, ranging from political coalition negotiations to the mutiny on the Bounty, from team meetings in offices to places for living

Architektur: Wie Architekten Gespräche lenken – und Macht verteilen
Gute Architektur verbindet Menschen, schlechte trennt sie. Wer die Gesetze des Bauens kennt, kann Politiker zusammenbringen – und sogar den Lauf der Geschichte verändern.

Distributed system perspective on Backscatter systems
Jincheng Guan, Jun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04833 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Distributed system perspective on Backscatter systems
Backscatter system is a system based on backscatter communication technology, which is a low cost, low power consumption and easy to deploy communication technology. At present, the backscatter technology is mainly applied to RFID tags and the Internet of Things and other fields. With the rapid development of the Internet of Things, the application of backscatter systems is increasing. Moreover, the backscatter system is essentially a distributed system, but existing research rarely conducts st…