Tim Berners-Lee and the WWW 20 years later – some images

“Vague, but exciting”. Those were the words Mike Sendhall, Tim Berners-Lee’s boss, used when he commented on Berner-Lee’s proposal for the  World Wide Web back in 1989. Well, the celebration of the 20 years old web on Friday at CERN, Geneva/Switzerland was clearly not vague, exciting is a very appropriate word to describe the anniversary. … Continue reading →

Super duper calculations – the grids are coming

I wrote an article (in Norwegian) about CERN’s Grid (a super network of computers) for Forskning.no earlier this week. This Grid, which is probably the world largest, was built in order to handle and compute the incredible amounts of data from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A short explanation – on the Internet, you can … Continue reading →

Funky rap about LHC – the world’s biggest science experiment

September 10th, CERN is switching on the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland for real (they’ve been testing for a long time), but what is actually going on in the 27 km long tunnel underneath Switzerland and France and why is it so extraordinary? What will happen when atoms smash together in the tunnel, how can … Continue reading →