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News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being constructed at CERN near Geneva will be the largest scientific instrument on the planet and will need the hugely powerful computing to process the 15 Petabytes of data that it will... [24 Nov 2005]
Physicists put huge computing grid through its paces
News The tests aim to improve the grid being built to process data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently being built at Cern in Geneva. The CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire has been exchanging... [21 Sep 2005]
Who deserves a UK tech gong? Tell us…
News The man who put the URL into hypertext and came up with the web while working at CERN. As part of the CNET UK Awards this month we are looking for the individual who has made the greatest contribution to UK technology. [09 Sep 2004]
Arise Sir Tim Berners-Lee
News Sir Tim came up with the idea of what he called global hypertext space while working at the European Particle Physics Laboratory at CERN in 1989. While Apple fumbled, over at CERN Berners-Lee wrote a... [02 Jan 2004]
Oracle joins grid effort
News The database software company will join Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel and other major corporate backers in the Openlab for DataGrid project run by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). The company said it... [05 Dec 2003]
Japanese set data tranmission speed record
News In contrast, last month team a comprising members of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the California Institute of Technology achieved a speed equivalent to sending a full-length DVD film in seven... [04 Nov 2003]
Massive grid goes looking for the origins of the universe
News The new, more powerful particle accelerator, known as the Large Hadron Collider, is being built at CERN, the same Swiss laboratory where Tim Berners-Lee developed the world wide web. As a result, researchers at... [02 Apr 2003]
Tim Berners Lee: inventor of the World Wide Web
News Tim Berners Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working for CERN - the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland - has been credited as one of the most influential people of the 20th... [22 Aug 2002]
Oracle Factfile
Comment VeriSign, Boeing, NHS, Abbey National, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Colt Telecom, CERN, BT. Key Financials Revenues $8.8bn, $8.8bn, $11bn, $9.7bn Net profit: $1.3bn, $1.3bn, $2.6bn, $2.2bn Key Executives [09 Aug 2002]
Middle managers replaced by robots by 2051
News CERN scientists capture the Higgs Boson particle making possible new power generation. Offices will disappear and robots will replace middle-managers within the next 50 years. The prediction comes from the entry that won... [16 Oct 2001]
Terrorist attacks: Don't blame the web, says Berners-Lee
News Now a professor at MIT and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Berners-Lee created the first hypertext protocols while working at the CERN research laboratory in Switzerland. 'Father of the web' Tim... [27 Sep 2001]
Another gong for Berners-Lee
News Berners-Lee cooked up many of the elements that we now know as the world wide web while working at the CERN particle accelerator in Geneva, Switzerland. 'Father of the web' Tim Berners-Lee has received an award for his... [21 Aug 2001]
Happy 10th birthday to the World Wide Web
News Two engineers at Switzerland's nuclear research laboratory Cern, Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau, had conceived of a hypertext system which would allow information in any language or form to be shared... [06 Aug 2001]
IBM joins crusade to reinvent the internet
News One of the strongholds of the grid computing project is the Geneva physics laboratory Cern, the birthplace of the world wide web. Cern is developing a particle accelerator which will generate billions of... [02 Aug 2001]
John Lamb's week: WWW inventor goes wireless
Comment On Tuesday the company will be making an intriguing announcement that features the co-inventor of the world wide web, Robert Cailliau of nuclear research laboratory CERN. Integration has been a bugbear for big business... [23 Jul 2001]
