IT News

D-Lab Classes for April 2026

April 2, 2026

Science IT @ LBL has partnered with D-Lab to offer free, engaging workshops on the latest IT applications. Upcoming workshops include Python, R Programming, and Tidyverse. Sign up for a free class today! Read more »

Confluence (Commons) upgrade planned for Sept 24

September 17, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Sep 17, 2014 Outage Details Date We are planning to upgrade our Commons wiki to Confluence 5.5.6 (from 5.4.3) the evening of Wednesday, September 24, 2014. The outage window will start at 6pm and end at 9pm. Impact In addition to bug fixes, the new version of Confluence has a more robust Read more »
HPCS helps researchers set new Microscopy record at the ALS.

September 11, 2014

Gary M Jung posted on Sep 11, 2014 Researchers at the ALS used “soft” X-rays to image structures only five nanometers in size. This resolution is the highest ever achieved with X-ray microscopy and may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Diffraction data is recorded by a high speed CCD camera and fed Read more »
Announcing the availability of Pivot – a tool to find funding opportunities

August 29, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Aug 29, 2014 IT is proud to launch a 1 year pilot of COS Pivot, a tool for finding funding opportunities. The tool indexes over 20,000 opportunities and presents them in a searchable database. It can also match funding opportunities automatically based on profiles established and edited in the system. Additional Read more »
New Phonebook Application

July 23, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 23, 2014 New version deployed on July 31 We made some changes to the phonebook after reviewing customer feedback. The screen shot below reflects the new look will surface later Thursday afternoon The Labs phonebook (directory look-up) service is undergoing some changes. It incorporates some of the more advanced search Read more »
FUZE Video Conferencing Update

July 22, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 22, 2014 A new Windows client from Fuze is now available – go to fuze.com/download to install it. The Fuze client is installed on 46 Video Cart/Office Systems (the Mac Version) – and with the release of the latest Windows client a unified look and feel is consistent across laptop and desktop Read more »
Testing UberConference through August 15

July 8, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 08, 2014 The IT Division is moving into a second phase of testing related to UberConference. This product offers capabilities similar to Readytalk with useful Google integration opportunities. In our prior tests, we were just using the free version. We now have 75 PRO licenses that allow you to pick your Read more »
Doodle Scheduling Tool

July 3, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jul 03, 2014 Doodle premium service now available for LBL employees We have acquired a one year subscription to doodle’s premium service to help “power” calendar users find appropriate times for hard to schedule guests. Doodle is particularly useful when trying to find times that accommodate a mix of lab and Read more »
EDUROAM available to Lab employees

June 16, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on Jun 16, 2014 Update: 6/26/14 Wireless access points at LBL that support eduroam include 33, 50E, 50F, 65,70, 70A, 65A, 65B, 88, 90 & 90 trailers. The current list of buildings with this support can be found at the Wireless – Upgraded page. We have begun initial testing of our EDUROAM wireless Read more »
IT Training Opportunities

June 4, 2014

Nina Lucido posted on Jun 04, 2014 The IT Division is offering two identical Advanced Arduino workshops from 9am-12pm and 1pm-4pm on Tuesday, June 24 in Pers Hall (54-130). Registration can be found on our “Training and Awareness” webpage located here: https://commons.lbl.gov/display/itdivision/Training+and+Awareness The class will introduce advanced concepts, focusing on sensors, actuators, and programming techniques that might be used to Read more »
The New WWW

June 3, 2014

Adam Stone posted on Jun 03, 2014 Public Affairs, supported by IT, launched their new Home Suite (www, today at berkeley lab, newscenter) over the weekend. A few notable technical features include: Responsive Design: The site dynamically adjusts to the size of your screen, reconfiguring itself for readability and usability from smartphone to widescreen monitor. To Read more »
Stump the Search Engine

May 28, 2014

Adam Stone posted on May 28, 2014 We’re excited to have launched the new search.lbl.gov portal powered by Google Custom Search. We’ve been impressed by the results but we need your help to tune and improve it. Try your searches and use the feedback link at the bottom of the search page to tell us about Read more »
New Approach to Account Creation launched May 15, 2014

May 16, 2014

Charles (Charlie) Verboom posted on May 16, 2014 As part of a plan to reduce manual effort by the HR Shared Services new hire onboarding team, our collaboration team, and the IT Help desk – we deployed some new automated processes for Account Creation on May 15, 2014. We offer three types of services: An Enterprise Directory Read more »