Category: Computing

  • What makes CERN’s research great

    As a newcomer to CERN, I find myself both honoured and humbled to have had the role of Research Director confided in me for five years

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  • The CERN effect

    An opinion article from Sijbrand de Jong, President of CERN Council, on using innovation and knowledge so cutting-edge research can benefit society

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  • On the road to Open Science

    The release of the Open Data Portal is a significant milestone on the road to Open Science, but there is work ahead

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  • An email-encryption service born in Restaurant One

    Time spent at CERN has inspired a team of young computer scientists to launch ProtonMail, a new encrypted-email service

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  • CERN inspires entrepreneurs for email encryption

    Time spent at CERN has inspired a team of young computer scientists to launch ProtonMail, a new encrypted-email service

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  • Internet prehistory at CERN

    Connecting CERN to the internet was a chaotic but essential task, says retired CERN computer scientist Ben Segal

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  • Minimising the muddle

    Peggie Rimmer was Tim Berners-Lee’s hierarchical “leader” in CERN’s Data and Documents division when he invented the World Wide Web

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  • Good old Bitnet, and the rise of the World Wide Web

    Senior physicist Richard Jacobsson remembers the early days of the World Wide Web at CERN

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  • On the open internet and the free web

    David Foster on our responsibility as individuals to preserve an open internet and a free web for the benefit of humankind

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  • Not at all vague and much more than exciting

    CERN computer scientist Maria Dimou on Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for a free, open World Wide Web

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