NOBUGS 2004 Conference

New Opportunities for Better User Group Software

October, 18-20, 2004 at PSI, Switzerland

Upcoming: NOBUGS 2006 at LBL

NOBUGS 2004 Overview

The fifth NOBUGS conference was held in October, 18-20, 2004 at the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI.

The aim of the NOBUGS series of conferences is to foster collaboration between IT professionals working at X-ray and neutron sources around the world. This collaboration should yield better data acquisition and data analysis software for the users of such facilities. This in turn will increase user productivity and thus maximise the scientific result to be obtained from the large investment required to build and maintain X-ray or Neutron facilities.

NOBUGS 2004 feautures 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 Beamline Alignment
• Data Management
• Data Formats
• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• Instrument Simulation
• Automatisation of Experiments
• Biocomputing 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 2004 is the fifth 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