Title: Welcome to CERN
1Welcome to CERN
Research
Technology
Education Training
Collaborating
Computing
2From the Web to the Grid
31st Installation Test
4LHC Experiments
30 of cost electronics computing EDMS
configuration management around the world
ATLAS, CMS - Higgs boson(s) - SUSY particles -
more dimensions? ALICE Quark Gluon
Plasma LHC-B - CP violation in B
5CERN and its Collaborating Institutes
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The community that stimulated the development of
the World Wide Web and advances the Grid
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Decades of Collaborative Culture based on "best
efforts" MoUs and Openess!
270 institutes in Europe 4600 scientists
210 institutes elsewhere 1650 scientists
1 LHC experiment 1/3 of this
6Tasks of the scientific Community
- Provide open, validated scientific and
educational content (referees, standards, search
engines, references, . . ) - Provide for training, participation
opportunities in today's scientific and
engineering endeavours - Help with connectivity
7WSIS Declaration of Principles
- We, the representatives of the peoples of the
world, assembled in Geneva from 10-12 December
2003 - declare our common desire and commitment to build
a people-centred, inclusive and development
oriented Information Society, where everyone can
create, access, utilize and share information
and knowledge, - enabling individuals, communities and peoples to
achieve their full potential in - promoting their sustainable development and
improving their quality of life.
8A challenge to the world's scientistsKofi Annan,
March 7, 2003
- Science has contributed immensely to human
progress and to the development of modern
society. The application of scientific knowledge
continues to furnish powerful means for solving
many of the challenges facing humanity - Recent advances in information technology,
genetics and biotechnology hold extraordinary
prospects for individual well-being and humankind
as a whole - At the same time, the way in which scientific
endeavours are pursued around the world is marked
by clear inequalities - This unbalanced distribution of scientific
activity generates serious problems not only for
the scientific community in the developing
countries, but for development itself - The idea of two worlds of science is anathema to
the scientific spirit. It will require the
commitment of scientists and scientific
institutions throughout the world to change that
portrait to bring the benefits of science to all
9Role of Science in Information Society
- RSIS was a WSIS Summit Event held at CERN, the
European laboratory for Particle Physics - To emphasise Role of Science in the Information
Society -
- To express the voice of the scientific community
to WSIS - Organised by UNESCO, CERN, International Council
of Science Unions and Third World Academy of
Science.
10Tomorrows Digital LibrariesHow ICTs Will
Preserve and Disseminate Knowledge
- Ismail Serageldin
- Geneva
- 8 December 2003
11Ismail Serageldin
12The Enormous Weakness of the Schooling System on
which the University Builds
Ismail Serageldin
and the deficiencies of the scientific
efforts Scientists teach Teachers (my statement)
13Ismail Serageldin
14Rich Countries Vs. Poor Countries
- Income
- 40 Times
- Research 220 Times
Ismail Serageldin
15Ismail Serageldin
16Conclusions from RSISSummit Event of WSIS
- The Web will become the repository of validated
scientific knowledge, educational information and
also of human knowledge in general. Guidelines
need to be established and agreed. - Publicly funded (fundamental-) research should
make its findings generally available - Universities and academic institutes should have
sufficient means to access such information
easily, - namely affordable connectivity,
- affordable software to access the information
- affordable access to the information itself, for
example free access - Grids will make participation possible
17RSIS detailed Conclusions
- Education consensus that education is needed for
development, scientists teach the teachers a
role for South-South cooperation "Open
Courseware" from many Universities encouraged
ICTs are essential - Health ICTs can help in priority public-health
areas (safe water, ), capacity-building,
telemedicine - Environment planners and decision makers need
accurate and timely information, North-South
collaboration essential to ensure access to data - Economic Development open-source software should
be made available, exchange and use of scientific
data could be a model for society - Enabling Technologies scientists should engage
in policy arena and define projects with clear
benefits, e.g., computing Grids for participation.
18ITU presentation related to WSIS
19ITU presentation related to WSIS
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21Digital Access Index
22To do
- Provide open, validated scientific and
educational content ? subject of this conference - Provide for training, participation
opportunities in today's scientific and
engineering endeavours - Help with connectivity in collaboration with ICT
industries, institutes and governments promoting
concrete actions based on best practice - Promote common, bottom up scientific and
educational endeavours - Special CERN School of Computing for Africa?
- Scientific conference on status and needs of
Physics in Africa? - .