Category: cern

CERN approves plans for a $23 billion, 62-mile long super-collider

Post author By Randall
Post date June 22, 2020
Categories In cern, higgs boson, large hadron collider, News, particles, standard model, super-collider, Tech, tomorrow

[ad_1] In a new development strategy paper, CERN emphasized that its current priority is to complete a “high-luminosity” upgrade of the current LHC with high-field superconducting NbSn magnets. This would create many times more collisions than the LHC can now, boosting the chances of seeing Higgs bosons and other rare particles. The future collider would […]

CERN turns to open source software as Microsoft increases its fees

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Post date June 13, 2019
Categories In academic, business, cern, data, fees, gear, licensing, malt, Microsoft, microsoft alternatives, open source, project, research institutions, software, Tech, tomorrow, vendor

[ad_1] In its blog post, CERN said “MAlt’s objective is to put us back in control using open software.” Its goal is to break CERN’s dependency on commercial vendors and “keep hands on the data.” The multi-year project will begin with a pilot mail service for the IT department and volunteers this summer. If that […]

We got the free and open internet we deserve

Post author By Randall
Post date March 12, 2019
Categories In cern, elizabethwarren, Facebook, Google, inrupt, Internet, solid, Tech, tim berners-lee, timberners-lee, tomorrow, Twitter, worldwideweb
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[ad_1] Berners-Lee began developing the Web while working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (aka CERN) in 1989 as a means of sharing data among the organization’s myriad PC brands and operating systems. “It was designed to be universal,” Berners-Lee told NPR in 2017. The whole point was breaking apart silos.” Berners-Lee even envisioned […]