Computing Is Indeed a Discipline in Crisis

While Silicon Valley is investing tens of billions of dollars chasing the AGI dream, academic computing research in the U.S. is facing a severe drought.

cacm.acm.org/opinion/comp...

We are pleased to announce an open PhD position at the CNR-ISTI
We are looking for a motivated PhD student with a background and interest in 3D Graphics, Geometry Processing, and Machine Learning.

**Deadline: 18 July 2025**

phd-ai-society.di.unipi.it/applications/
(pag 19 of the call: AI for 3D)

This letter has now reached almost 500 signatures, with many of my heroes, tool builders I have leaned on, professors who taught me, and others who made this field what it is.

If keeping this field accessible and egalitarian is important to you, add your signature in the link.

Signed. Definitely this is something that needs to be shared more...

Folks in the #SIGGRAPH community:

You may or may not be aware of the controversy around the next #SIGGRAPHAsia location, summarized here www.cs.toronto.edu/~jacobson/we...

If you're concerned consider signing this letter docs.google.com/document/d/1...
via this form
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I signed and encourage colleagues to do the same.

Venue selection is fraught. Inevitably attendees will encounter visa issues, distance, expense, local politics, and other challenges. This venue, however, is simply unsafe for LGBTQ+ researchers, and the leadership's defensiveness is unacceptable.

Please help us understand what experts expect from digital
reconstructions of ancient color!
We're running a short (10 min) anon survey for professionals in archaeology, art history, architecture, conservation/restoration, museums, and digital humanities.
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Happy to share that our paper, "Optimizing Free-Form Grid Shells with Reclaimed Elements under Inventory Constraints", will be presented at #Eurographics 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L05g...

I had two NSF grants terminated last week, for a total of just under $1M. The largest one had just started and its goal was to provide users with more context and information on the content that they see on social media.

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

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TUM AI Lecture Series - The 3D Gaussian Splatting Adventure: Past, Present, Future www.youtube.com/live/DjOqkVI...

Happy to report the success of our beloved #TagLab at #ReefFutures! Gaia Pavoni and Massimiliano Corsini are presenting the latest advances of our AI-powered, open-source segmentation tool for large ortho-images generated through the photogrammetric pipeline.

Great post from the nervous systems guys!
Two small additional notes:
- Anisotropic CVD's beside being nice, are also quite interesting from a structural point of view vcg.isti.cnr.it/publication/...
- to actually generate nicer decompositions it is useful to add a further shape optimization step

Eric Haines posted on realtimerendering:

* GPU-Zen3 is out. We know that, but...
* Someone wrote a ray tracer in Minecraft. :)
* Someone ran Doom on E coli cells. =)

Yeah...

www.realtimerendering.com/blog/seven-t...

As a first post a happy note that the latest release of RealityCapture includes a reimplementation of our beloved Texture Defragmentation algorithm!
vcg.isti.cnr.it/publication/...

Is always gratifying to see that your solutions are actually useful and get adopted by industry in a short time...

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 366 - November 17th, 2024 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

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