Read article 'CERN computing wins top award'
This prestigious award was made to CERN for its innovative application of information technology to the benefit of society, and it followed the laboratory's nomination by Lawrence Ellison, chairman an...
Read article 'A major SHIFT in outlook'
I don’t remember exactly who first proposed running physics batch jobs on a UNIX workstation, rather than on the big IBM or Cray mainframes that were doing that kind of production work in 1989 a...
Read article 'Finnish technology takes on CERN’s data mountain'
That the World Wide Web - invented at CERN - has revolutionized the world of business is clear. Less well known is the lab's continuing role in transferring Web-based technology to industry. Finnish ...
Read article 'Workshop looks through the lattice'
Faced with the difficulty of doing exact calculations, theorists are turning to approximation techniques to understand and predict what happens at the quark level.
Read article 'PCs gain greater importance in particle accelerator control'
Personal computers are steadily making inroads into some specialist and very impersonal fields.
Read article 'Computing technology sits in the driving seat'
Advances in physics go hand in hand with those in experimental techniques, and increasingly so with progress in computing and analysis. A recent workshop at Fermilab surveyed this fast-developing ar...
Read article 'Data Grid project gets EU funding'
Plans for the next generation of network-based information-handling systems took a major step forward when the European Union's Fifth Framework Information Society Technologies programme concluded ne...
Read article 'How the Web was Born'
Ben Segal reviews in 2000 How the Web was Born.
Read article 'Quantum Computation and Quantum Information'
This book is designed to be accessible by those who do not necessarily have a background in quantum physics.
Read article 'RHIC starts producing data'
After achieving first collisions of gold ion beams on the night of 12 June, the gleaming new Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) facility at Brookhaven wasted no time in ramping up in energy and i...
