Read article 'Going public: a new paradigm'
Most of the world’s computing power is no longer concentrated in supercomputer centres and machine rooms. Instead it is distributed around the world in hundreds of millions of PCs and game conso...
Read article 'More than just a conference'
When CERN’s Kurt Hübner and Günther Plass travelled to Rome in 1986 to join Sergio Tazzari of the Frascati Laboratory in search of a venue for the first European Particle Accelerator C...
Read article 'Smaller institutes look to gain from scientific fallout'
Large laboratories obtain scientific data in vast quantities and usually use this material for rapid research being driven by competition. The majority of important results are collected in as short a...
Read article 'The importance of funding outreach'
Science and technology play an increasingly important role in our everyday lives, and many of life’s decisions now depend on some sort of scientific or technical knowledge. At the same time, adv...
Read article 'CERN’s role on the European stage'
When the convention for the establishment of a European organization for nuclear research was signed in Paris on 1 July 1953, the 12 states who signed up to the formal establishment of CERN agreed tha...
Read article 'Science in the information society'
On 8 and 9 December 2003, CERN hosted a conference on The Role of Science in the Information Society (RSIS), immediately prior to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Our efforts to org...
Read article 'The case for investing in the future'
Dear Professor Bourquin, The European laboratory for particle physics, CERN, is often cited as the jewel of international collaboration. Created almost half a century ago by a consortium of 11 governm...
Read article 'World crises cast a long shadow on science'
The free circulation of scientists, the freedom to pursue science, to communicate among scientists and to disseminate scientific information, are generally taken for granted in the regions we commonly...
Read article 'Training benefits from basic research'
In 1992-1993, the American Physical society, the European Physical Society and the Japanese Physical Society issued common position papers that were published simultaneously in their respective bullet...
Read article 'Technology brings the world to Africa'
Mozambique was the host to an extraordinary event in July involving African heads of state, leading medical experts and major funding agencies for health and development. Uniquely, this interaction wa...
