Category: Computing

  • CERN openlab CTO co-founds Swiss chapter of Women in High-Performance Computing advocacy group

    CERN openlab CTO co-founds Swiss chapter of Women in High-Performance Computing advocacy group

    Women in HPC works to reduce this gender gap in high-performance computing, or “HPC”

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  • Computer Security: How AI are you?

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is on everyone’s mind, and CERN is no exception

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  • Members of the “CoE RAISE” EU project – developing AI approaches for next-generation supercomputers – meet at CERN

    This innovative project is developing artificial-intelligence (AI) approaches for next-generation “exascale” supercomputers

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  • Computer Security: Animal or plant?

    We have been informed that it’s not only computer mice that pose a threat to your digital well-being. No, trackpads do, too

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  • Computer Security: When auto-update is not so auto

    With more and more random software installed on our laptops, tablets, smartphones and other devices, more and more security risks creep in

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  • Computer Security: What’s under the tree?

    It’s time to review what Father Christmas and his elves, gnomes and reindeers, if you happen to believe in them, have put under the computer security tree

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  • Computer Security: Freemium paywalls

    Lots of software are provided to CERN for free, and not just open-source software. But what do they actually mean when they say “free”?

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  • Applications open for 2023 CERN openlab summer student programme

    Are you a bachelor’s or master’s student in computer science, mathematics, engineering or physics? Do you have a strong computing profile, and would you be interested in working on advanced computing projects at CERN during summer 2023? If so, we have just the solution for you: the CERN openlab summer student programme. CERN openlab is

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  • Quantum deep: delving into quantum technologies at CERN’s QT4HEP conference

    Quantum deep: delving into quantum technologies at CERN’s QT4HEP conference

    The event discussed the latest developments in quantum technologies and identified activities within particle physics and beyond that can most benefit from their application

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  • Computer Security: When your restaurant turns sour

    It’s the beauty of software engineering to reuse programs/libraries/packages/VMs/containers developed by others – but this comes with a caveat

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