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CERN confirms LHC schedule
Geneva, 20 June 2003. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 20 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 125th session today under the chairmanship of Professor Maurice Bourquin (CH). Highlights of the meeting included confirmation that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its detectors are on
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CERN receives early 50th anniversary present from Swiss Confederation
Geneva, 6 June 2003. Swiss President Pascal Couchepin announced Wednesday 4 June an early 50th birthday present 1 from the Swiss Confederation to CERN2. Switzerland has decided to offer the laboratory the ‘Palais de l’Equilibre’, a landmark bu ilding designed by Geneva architects for Switzerland’s 2002 national exhibition. Standing 27 metres high, the building will
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CERN breaks gigabyte/s storage-to-tape barrier with StorageTek
Geneva, 28 May 2003. CERN1 announced today the successful completion of a major data challenge aimed at pushing the limits of data storage to tape. Using 45 newly installed StorageTek2 9940B tape drives, capable of writing to tape at 30megabyte/s, Bernd Panzer and his team at the IT Division of CERN were able to achieve
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Swiss President to visit CERN
Geneva, 23 May 2003. Pascal Couchepin, President of the Swiss Confederation, will visit CERN1 on 4 June to participate in the official inauguration of the underground cavern for the laboratory’s ATLAS experiment. As the first new experimental cavern to be handed over to CERN by civil engineering contractors, this represents an important milestone for the
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CERN celebrates Web anniversary
Geneva, 29 April 2003. Ten years ago, CERN1 issued a statement declaring that a little known piece of software called the World Wide Web was in the public domain. That was on 30 April 1993, and it opened the floodgates to Web development around the world. By the end of the year Web browsers were
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“Physics and Life” for Europe’s Science Teachers
What do you know about modern science? Was your school science teacher inspiring and enthusiastic? Or was physics class a good time to take a nap? Geneva, 4 April 2003. EIROforum1, the group of seven leading European Research Organizations including CERN2, is launching “Physics On Stage 3“. The aim is to stimulate the interest of
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IBM joins CERN openlab for DataGrid applications
IBM is to join CERN in building a massive data grid to help scientists understand the origins of the Universe. Geneva, 2 April 2003. CERN1 and IBM today announced that IBM is joining the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications to collaborate in creating a massive data-management system built on Grid computing. IBM's innovative storage virtualization
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CERN Receives First US-built Component for Large Hadron Collider
Geneva, 21 January 2003. In a milestone for global science collaboration, CERN1 took delivery today of the first US-built contribution to what will be the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator. The superconducting magnet, built at the US Brookhaven National Laboratory will become a key component of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It is the first of
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EIB lends € 300 million for CERN’s major collider
Geneva, 18 December 2002. The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 300 million to finance the final phase of construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN1, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The EIB loan will also help to finance the instrumentation to record and analyse the high-energy particle collisions at the
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CERN Council looks to bright future
Geneva, 13 December 2002. The CERN1 Council, where the representatives of the 20 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 123rd session today under the chairmanship of Professor Maurice Bourquin. The election of the next Director General, the Baseline Plan for 2003-2010 and a new status for non-European