Am 08.09.2012 22:31, schrieb Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.: >> All that information only a web search away :). Yes, I am employed by >> Nikhef, and I am based at CERN at the moment. >> > Ok.....so I know this is going to sound stupid, but I'm currently unavailable > to do a "search"....what....exactly > IS CERN?....a school?.....a military outfit?....some kind of society?....just > curious...
are you always only kidding? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/about/web-en.html Tim Berners-Lee, a scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information sharing between scientists working in different universities and institutes all over the world. CERN is not an isolated laboratory, but rather a focus for an extensive community that now includes about 60 countries and about 8000 scientists. Although these scientists typically spend some time on the CERN site, they usually work at universities and national laboratories in their home countries. Good contact is clearly essential. The basic idea of the WWW was to merge the technologies of personal computers, computer networking and hypertext into a powerful and easy to use global information system.
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