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£1 million Engineering prize honours web pioneers

The inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering went to five engineers whose work led to the internet and the World Wide Web

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18 March, 2013

Students teach at 'inverted' school of computing

Students took to the podium today at the Sixth Inverted CERN School of Computing

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26 February, 2013

CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes

The CERN Data Centre has collected more than 100 petabytes of data – equivalent to roughly 700 years of full HD-quality movies

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14 February, 2013
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14 February, 2013

Registration open for ROOT users' workshop 2013

ROOT users' workshop 11-14 March 2013 in Saas-Fee, Switzerland (abstract deadline 25 Feb; registration deadline 7 Mar)

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13 February, 2013

The computing school where students teach

The 'inverted' School of Computing (iCSC) at CERN from 25 to 26 February 2013 will allow former students to take a turn at lecturing

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11 February, 2013
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11 February, 2013

The next generation of scientific computing

Leaders from academia and industry came together last week at CERN to discuss the IT requirements for the next generation of research infrastructures

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06 February, 2013
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06 February, 2013

CERN and Oracle celebrate 30 years of collaboration

In addition to providing hardware and software to CERN for three decades, Oracle has now been involved in the CERN openlab project for 10 years

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04 February, 2013

Standing on the shoulders of software developers

Ensuring scientific software stays citable and sustainable

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31 January, 2013

Helix Nebula project passes proof-of-concept

Now half way through its pilot phase, the Helix Nebula project is moving ahead with new organizations coming on board

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24 January, 2013
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24 January, 2013

This month in 1991: The web spreads beyond CERN

Twenty-one years ago this month, physicists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) installed the first web server outside of Europe

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20 December, 2012