The “Digital Humanities at Berkeley” initiative, which has been supported by the work of Research IT staff since its inception, has been bolstered by a $2 million grant from the Mellon Foundation, as reported by the UC Berkeley News Center piece “...Read more about Digital Humanities program receives million grant
Data centers consume approximately 2 percent of the nation’s electrical energy, and roughly half of that is consumed by the IT equipment. Berkeley Lab researcher Henry Coles and Berkeley Research Computing HPC consultant Yong Qin recently published a paper with implications for improving the...Read more about New paper evaluates server energy use
On Sunday, September 21, 2014, teams of computer hackers, user interface designers and domain experts and enthusiasts convened at UC Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (PAHMA), to present their entries to judges and spectators in the first-ever...Read more about PAHMA HackTheHearst hackathon winners announced
The CollectionSpace technical team has gained two new members who will support and extend the museum collections management software through LYRASIS, the project’s new organizational home. Richard Millet, formerly of UC Berkeley’s Research IT, has joined LYRASIS as the CollectionSpace Technical...Read more about CollectionSpace Tech Team Formed at LYRASIS
The University and Jepson Herbaria (UC/JEPS) have launched a dedicated search portal for all their digitized collections. A herbarium is a scientific museum collection of preserved botanical specimens, and the Herbaria at UC Berkeley have over two million specimens...Read more about New UC/JEPS Specimen Search Portal
