This is a collaborative wiki where people write scrappers that can be re-used to trawl the internet or a specific website automatically and find data relating to a particular topic. For instance there is a scrapper that looks through twitter for…

I came across this interesting visualisation of the current US debt, and I think something similar could be used by CMS to show the amount of data collected and analysed over time, rather than just a graph. It could also work very well with Tom's…

Came across this excellent infographic and I thought I'd share it with the rest of you: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/the-internet-of-things-infographic/

A number of EPS talks will be previewed centrally on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 of July. The schedule for these previews can be found on https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=147431 The room is 40-5-A01 for all previews. The EVO…

Piazza is an online forum for ask and answer questions. Users ask a question that is then answered by other users and/or identified experts. There is only one space for each answer and answers are edited wiki-style, with versioning - so the forum…

The self-rescue mask training course (biocell training) is now mandatory for accessing the USC55 cavern. Register now !

The PAS of EXO-10-022 "Search for New Ditau Resonances in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV" is now public. You find it on CDS at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1367127?ln=en Congratulations to all involved. Best regards, Roberto Tenchini and Gigi…

The PAS of EXO-11-005 "Search for T/t' decays to tZ in pp Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV" is now public. You can find it on CDS at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1367130?ln=en Congratulations to all involved. Best regards, Roberto Tenchini and Gigi…

The PAS of BTV-11-001 "b-tagging performance (efficiency and mistag rate) measurements from CMS" is now public. You find it on CDS at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1366061?ln=en Congratulations to all involved. Best regards, Roberto Tenchini and Gigi…

Building 40 at CERN is going to change its appearance. A beautiful 1:1 maxi-poster of CMS is being installed in the central hall. To celebrate the completion of this installation we would like to invite you to a short drink this coming Friday from…

CMS is now running with 1236 bunches of protons !

This year's LHC physics run started in March. Since then the machine has broken many records, bringing its luminosity — the number of proton-proton collisions per second — to much higher levels than expected for this year. CMS now can take as much…