IT News

Upcoming Login Screen Refresh Paves the Way for Passkeys

June 9, 2025

In our ongoing efforts to enhance security and user experience across the Berkeley Lab community, IT is preparing for a significant upgrade to our authentication methods with the planned Lab-wide rollout of Passkeys later this year. As an initial step in this transition, we will soon be releasing an update to the authentication screens you… Read more »

IT Division Hosts Le Conte Elementary for Education Outreach Program

May 19, 2011

(mjchoung@lbl.gov) posted on May 19, 2011 Last week, the IT Division hosted Le Conte Berkeley Elementary School’s 2nd grade students for the second year of its educational outreach program. With the goal of introducing young students to the fundamentals of technology, the IT staff developed a curriculum that educated the students on how computers and networks support the science at Berkeley… Read more »
Color Coded Events and Pivot Tables

May 18, 2011

Adam Stone posted on May 18, 2011 Google Calendar now offers the ability to color code events in a single calendar. More information: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/color-code-your-google-calendar-events.html Pivot Tables are now available within Google Spreadsheets. This important feature has been frequently requested by LBL users. More information: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2011/05/pivot-tables-now-in-google-spreadsheets.html Read more »
LBL Employees Honored for Energy Efficient Ethernet Standard

May 17, 2011

Adam Stone posted on May 17, 2011 Mike Bennett from the IT Division received an IEEE award sponsored by the IEEE Standards Association. The award was presented in recognition for leadership in developing IEEE Std 802.3az-2010™, more commonly known as Energy Efficient Ethernet or EEE in the industry. The standard was published in the fall of… Read more »
Active Directory Upgrade Planned

May 6, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 06, 2011 We will be upgrading the Domain Controllers (DC) for Active Directory this month. This involves newer hardware as well as a change from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 R2. No customer impact is anticipated (approximately 2000 users and computers are members of the labs Active Directory environment). In… Read more »
Mathematica Latest On-line Seminars

May 3, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on May 03, 2011 THESE SEMINARS ARE PROVIDED BY MATHEMATICA AND NOT BY IT =============================================================================== New seminar titles featuring the latest technologies in Mathematica 8 are available to the technical computing community. Here is what participants are saying: “I am new to image processing and to Mathematica, and this seminar gave me a… Read more »
30 Days with Android – Day 1 Intro

May 2, 2011

Adam Stone posted on May 02, 2011 Day 1: Like many folks at LBL, I’ve been using an iPhone for several years now. Lately, I’ve been getting a number of questions about Android devices in terms of how they work with Google Apps, so I’m spending this month with a Samsung Galaxy S to get a… Read more »
Upload Folders and New Interface in Google Docs

May 2, 2011

Adam Stone posted on May 02, 2011 LBL users now have access to new refinements in the Google Docs List. You can upload entire folders to Google Docs, or drag and drop files directly on to the Docs list to initiate an upload and/or conversion. More information is available on the Google Apps blog. Read more »
Announcing Apps4Science

April 27, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Apr 27, 2011 Today we’re announcing a new program called Apps4Science. We’re looking to the Laboratory community to help share their expertise about the best mobile applications for scientific researchers. Whether it’s helping to organize journal research and citations, take laboratory notes, or even gather data, mobile apps have the potential to… Read more »
Voice Mail System Upgrade on Saturday, April 30th

April 26, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 26, 2011 The Lab’s voice mail system will be offline from 7:00 a.m. until approximately 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 30th for a system upgrade. During this time, callers will still be able to dial your extension but will be unable to leave you messages. Please click here to read about… Read more »
IT Booth at Lab Earth Day Fair

April 22, 2011

Adam Stone posted on Apr 22, 2011 IT joined other operations divisions and vendors for the Lab’s annual earth day fair on April 20th. Our table featured information about our green(er) data centers initiative, how to configure your computer’s power settings, and why personal printers make the pandas sad. Read more »
Matlab – Simulink Seminar Update – April 26

April 19, 2011

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Apr 19, 2011 Mathworks will be at the lab on April 26, Bldg 50 auditorium. Optional advanced registration can be done here. Agenda Presenter: Doug Eastman, Senior Application Engineer 9:30 – 10:00 a.m. Registration and sign-in. Walk-ins are welcome. 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Session 1: Data Analysis and Visualization in MATLAB… Read more »
OriginLab Survey

April 12, 2011

Nina Lucido posted on Apr 12, 2011 The IT Division is exploring the idea of making OriginLab software available for download on the IT Software site. If you have purchased an Origin license in the past or are thinking about purchasing one in the future, we would like to hear from you. Responses to survey will… Read more »