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The 1980s: spurring collaboration

Former CERN Director-General Herwig Schopper recalls a decade of growth at CERN

Opinion
Accelerators
16 April, 2014
Accelerators
Opinion
16 April, 2014

Taking CERN and ESA technology to the world’s largest industry fair

Signed just two weeks ago, the new CERN-ESA agreement is already bearing fruit

Opinion
At CERN
11 April, 2014

Internet prehistory at CERN

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

Opinion
Computing
09 April, 2014
Computing
Opinion
09 April, 2014

A noble cause

Poignant is the word that comes to mind this week, a week in which we lost the last surviving founding father of CERN, François de Rose

Opinion
At CERN
31 March, 2014
At CERN
Opinion
31 March, 2014

Spring cleaning for the CERN photo archive

Uploading the CERN photo archive to CDS will provide an invaluable resource to the CERN community, says Alex Brown

Opinion
At CERN
27 March, 2014
At CERN
Opinion
27 March, 2014

A busy week for science

Rolf Heuer on a week that included BICEP2's announcement on gravitational waves, Moriond, joint Tevatron-LHC results and a new director for TRIUMF

Opinion
Physics
21 March, 2014
Physics
Opinion
21 March, 2014

Innovating in knowledge transfer

Rolf Heuer on how basic research at CERN expands human knowledge, inspires the young and provides impetus to scientific and technical education

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Knowledge sharing
17 March, 2014
Knowledge sharing
Opinion
17 March, 2014

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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Computing
12 March, 2014
Computing
Opinion
12 March, 2014

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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Computing
12 March, 2014

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

Opinion
Computing
12 March, 2014
Computing
Opinion
12 March, 2014