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...
Read article 'The MATHEMATICA Book, Version 4,'
Wolfgang Lerche reviews in 1999
Read article 'ABSolutely fabulous!'
Software is playing an increasingly important role in the tricky business of setting up the beams from particle accelerators. A recent workshop at CERN looked at what has been accomplished so far and ...
Read article 'RHIC Mock Data Challenge successfully completed at Brookhaven'
With Brookhaven's RHIC relativistic heavy-ion collider scheduled to be commissioned this year, preparations for its experimental programme gather momentum.
