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Twenty years of a free, open web

On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web technology available on a royalty free basis, allowing the web to flourish

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30 April, 2013
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30 April, 2013

Twenty years of a free and open www

Robert Cailliau on the birth of the web, early brainstorming sessions and "how to spread this thing"

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30 April, 2013
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30 April, 2013

The open internet and the web

Vinton G Cerf, one of the "Fathers of the internet", on the architecture, connectivity and openness of the web

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30 April, 2013
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30 April, 2013

Animation shows LHC data processing

A new animation from CERN's IT department shows how LHC data is collected and sent around the world for processing

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18 April, 2013
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18 April, 2013

CRISP: Physics and collaboration

At the 2nd Annual Meeting of CRISP in Switzerland, CERN delegates discussed the IT challenges the laboratory faces to deal with LHC data

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28 March, 2013
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28 March, 2013

£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