NOBUGS 2006 Conference

New Opportunities for Better User Group Software

October 2-4, 2006 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA

The sixth NOBUGS conference will be held October 2-4, 2006 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.


The aim of the NOBUGS series of conferences is to foster collaboration for developers of computer techniques in scientific instrumentation, especially as employed at large scale user facilities. The conference seeks to improve the user's scientific productivity by focusing on the interaction between the experimenter and the facilities' infrastructures, apparatus, and data.

NOBUGS 2006 features oral and poster presentations of the latest developments in data acquisition, data analysis, user interface design and general computer science as is relevant to users and programmers working at scientific facilities.

The conference topics include, but are not limited to:

• Data Acquisition
• Automatic Instrument Calibration
• Data Management
• Data Formats
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Instrument Simulation
• Automated Experiments and Data Collection
• Grid Computing at Facilities
• Graphical User Interfaces
• WWW Application Development
• Remote Control of Data Aquisition and Data Analysis Tasks
• Distributed Computing
• Programming Techniques
• User Facility Management
• Facility Security
• Scientific Databases
• Collaborative Initiatives

Previous NOBUGS Conferences:

NOBUGS 2006 is the seventh installment of this series of conferences:

• NOBUGS 1 at ILL, France
• NOBUGS 2, at Argonne National aboratory, Chigago, USA
• NOBUGS 3 at Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
• Nobugs 4 at NIST, Gaithersburg, USA
• Nobugs 5, at PSI, Switzerland