Read article 'Computer control of physics is increasing'
Control by computer was once the domain of major facilities like particle accelerators. With these methods now being used across the board, a recent international conference on control systems for ...
Read article 'Computing is put on the MAP'
The University of Liverpool has just commissioned a major computer system that is dedicated to the simulation of data for current and future scientific experiments.
Read article 'Weaving the Web – The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor'
James Gillies reviews in 2000 Weaving the Web - The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by its Inventor.
Read article 'Neural computation points the way'
Neural computation - analysing data by simulating the way the brain works - is another area of application where high-energy physics is in the vanguard of development.
Read article 'New data centre is opened at Brookhaven'
Brookhaven and the State University of New York at Stony Brook have established a new centre for data-intensive computing at Brookhaven.
Read article 'The Gigabyte System Network is demonstrated at CERN'
To mark the major international Telecom '99 exhibition in Geneva, CERN staged a demonstration of the world's fastest computer networking standard, the Gigabyte System Network.
Read article 'FORTRAN 90/95 explained'
Despite the continual appearance of new programming languages Fortran, now well into middle age, soldiers on. This new edition summarizes the latest standards.
Read article 'Management practice for the global village'
Through the Scandinavian CoDisCo project, CERN is helping to define management practice for large-scale distributed projects.
Read article 'COMPASS course to future computing'
A major new spectrometer that is being installed at CERN will be a flagship fixed-target experiment for the millennium. Its voracious appetite for data requires new computing solutions, opening the do...
Read article 'Weaving a better tomorrow: the future of the Web'
The World Wide Web is 10 years old, but it is only just beginning to fulfil its potential. At the eighth World Wide Web conference in Toronto in May, James Gillies learned what the next decade might h...
