Autumn is here, the temperatures are dropping, and it seems like a good time to look back at our summer students … before we completely forget just how hot this summer was. Especially in an office with no air conditioning. This…
I am spending a good amount of time this summer at the University of Bonn. Bonn, the former capital of West Germany, is now just another 330k inhabitants city but has retained a wonderful flair of a capital: Major museums,…
The 28th Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2026) was held May 25 – 29, 2026 at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The CHEP conference series has historically addressed computing, networking, and software challenges for the experiments which…
In the last week and a half, a lot of computing activity took place for the PPC. We were heavily involved in the Computing Operations Workshop (March 12-13, 2026), the Computing and Offline Week (March 16-20, 2026), and, right in…
The recent Large Language Model Hackathon at the LHC Physics Center (LPC) at Fermilab brought together physicists and computer scientists from across the CMS experiment to hack away at building agents for use in the Collaboration. Ideas are abundant as…
During our two day workshop, we heard talks on a range of topics illustrating the enormous potential of large language models in transforming the landscape of scientific research and education. We heard from Kavita Bala, the Dean of Cornell Bowers…
YES; and if you have not heard it yet, the release of ChatGPT 3.5 has pushed the AI/ML revolution into high gear and it has arrived for real in research and education… To take stock of what is going on…
