What is CERN? About CERN's Name from the Web As an outsider, you may refer to us as "CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics near Geneva", but for legal reasons we will always communicate with you as the "European Organization for Nuclear Research". CERN staff must use the official name in all CERN published materials. CERN does pure scientific research into the laws of nature. We are not involved with nuclear weapons. Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
What is CERN? The CERN convention states: The Organization shall provide for collaboration among European States in nuclear research of a pure scientific and fundamental character, and in research essentially related thereto. The Organization shall have no concern with work for military requirements and the results of its experimental and theoretical work shall be published or otherwise made generally available. Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
De Broglie 1949 A Laboratory for the World Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
The 20 Member States Observers: UNESCO, EU, Israel, Turkey, USA, Japan, Russia Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
What is CERN doing? Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
Accelerators Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
CERN Users Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
LHC Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
International Collaboration Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
LHC Experiments Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
LHC and Computing Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
World Wide Collaboration Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
Estimated CPU Capacity Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
The Grid 'The Grid' Is Next Wave of Computing, Labs Hope Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
The World Wide Web Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
The World Wide Web In late 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a CERN computer scientist invented the World Wide Web The "Web" as it is affectionately called, was originally conceived and developed for the large high-energy physics collaborations which have a demand for instantaneous information sharing between physicists working in different universities and institutes all over the world. Now it has millions of academic and commercial users. Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
WWW Tim together with Robert Cailliau wrote the first WWW client (a browser-editor running under NeXTStep) and the first WWW server along with most of the communications software, defining URLs, HTTP and HTML. In December 1993 WWW received the IMA award and in 1995 Tim and Robert shared the Association for Computing (ACM) Software System Award for developing the World-Wide Web with M.Andreesen and E.Bina of NCSA. Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001
Importance of Science Monday, December 31, 2018Monday, December 31, 2018 CERN HST 2001