OTHER SEMINARS - Bringing the Web to America

by Dr. Paul F. Kunz (SLAC, Stanford)

Friday 17 Sept 1999, 16:30 → 16:45 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

On 12 December 1991, Dr. Kunz installed the first Web server outside of Europe at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Today, if you do not have access to the Web you are considered disadvantaged. Before it made sense for Tim Berners-Lee to invent the Web at CERN, there had to a number of ingredients in place. Dr. Kunz will present a history of how these ingredients developped and the role the academic research community had in forming them. In particular, the role that big science, such as high-energy physics, played in giving us the Web we have today. About the speaker: Dr Kunz received his PhD from Princeton University in 1968 and first came to CERN that year to do an experiment at the PS as a member of the Saclay group. He then went on to Michigan State in 1971 and worked on one of the first experiments at Fermilab. He joined SLAC in 1974 where he has been ever since. In late '70s, Dr Kunz invented the 168/E emulators and the concept of event processing via processor farms. In collaboration with CERN engineers, his processors were used as part of the 'express lane' for the UA1 experiment. Dr. Kunz has been a frequent visitor to CERN lately because of the popularity of his 'C++ for Particle Physicists' course which he is now giving at CERN for the 13th time since March of 1996. Overall, he has given the course 50 times through out the world to over 1700 students.

Organiser(s): J. Gillies / AS Division

Note: * Tea & coffee will be served at 16.00 hrs.

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