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Forum Engelberg 2004 to be launched in Bern on 13 November
Geneva, 7 November 2003. Former French science minister Hubert Curien will be among major figures from European politics and science meeting in Bern on 13 November to launch the Forum Engelberg 2004. A press conference introduced by the chief magistrate of the canton of Obwald, Alexander Höchli, will be held at the city's Hotel Schweizerhof
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Registration now open for landmark CERN conference
Geneva, 6 November 2003. Journalist registration is now available for the Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) conference, to be held at CERN1 on 8-9 December. To register, go to http://www.cern.ch/rsis/ and click on “participation”. A contributing event to the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, 10-12 December 2003), RSIS will explore
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Physics and Life: Teachers Meet Scientists at Major EIROforum event
Geneva, 5 November 2003. A year-long educational programme culminates with the Physics on Stage 3 festival during the European Science and Technology Week on 9-15 November 2003. More than 400 selected delegates from 22 European countries will take part in Physics on Stage 3, organised by the EIROforum research organisations (CERN1, EFDA, EMBL, ESA, ESO,
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CERN and Caltech join forces to smash Internet speed record
Geneva, 15 October 2003. CERN1 and California Institute of Technology (Caltech) will tomorrow receive an award for transferring over a Terabyte of data across 7,000 km of network at 5.44 gigabits per second (Gbps), smashing the old record of 2.38 Gbps achieved in February between CERN in Geneva and Sunnyvale in California by a Caltech,
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CERN at Telecom World 2003 : Innovating for Tomorrow
Geneva, 10 October 2003. CERN1, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is teaming up with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Geneva in demonstrating technology of the future on the Lake Geneva Region stand at Telecom World 2003. From the Web to the Grid The World Wide Web was invented
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LHC Computing Grid Goes Online
Geneva, 29 September 2003. The world’s particle physics community today announced the launch of the first phase of the LHC computing Grid (LCG). The LCG is designed to handle the unprecedented quantities of data that will be produced by experiments at CERN1‘s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from 2007 onwards. “The LCG will provide a vital
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CERN celebrates discoveries and looks to the future
Geneva, 2 September 2003. Nobel laureates will be among the distinguished guests at a symposium at CERN1 on 16 September. The symposium will celebrate the double anniversary of major discoveries at CERN that underlie the modern theory of particles and forces. It will also look forward to future challenges and opportunities as the laboratory moves
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CERN announces major conference on the information society
Geneva,11 August 2003. A side event to the World Summit on the Information Society (Geneva, December 2003) will explore the past and future contributions of science to the information society. Hosted by CERN1, the Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS) conference will bring together scientists and representatives of funding agencies and governments worldwide.
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CERN prepares for 50th anniversary
Geneva, 1 July 2003. Fifty years ago today, representatives of the twelve founding Member States of CERN1 signed the Organization’s convention, paving the way for the establishment of the world’s leading fundamental physics research institution. Today, CERN numbers 20 European Member States, with several countries from beyond the European region also participating in the Laboratory’s
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New Long-range Speed Record with Next-Generation
Geneva, 26 June 2003. Scientists at CERN1 and the California Institute of Technology2 (Caltech) have set a new Internet2 land speed record using the next-generation Internet protocol IPv6. The team sustained a single stream Transfer Control Protocol (TCP) rate of 983 megabits per second for more than one hour between CERN and Chicago, a distance