Seminar: Film debate evening: The birth of the WWW

Time: 8:00 PM Location: Garden of the Château de Voltaire Location in CERN maps:

In 1989, CERN was a hive of ideas and information was stored on a large number of incompatible computers. Sir Tim Berners-Lee then devised a unifying structure to connect the information scattered on these different computers.

In March 1989, he wrote a proposal entitled "Information Management: A Proposal." By 1991, this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web!

Screening of the documentary "ForEveryone.net" (in English with French subtitles) followed by a discussion in French with: François Flückiger, promoter of the Internet in Europe whose responsibilities included managing the World Wide Web team at CERN after Tim Berners-Lee left for the USA.

Moderated by Maria Girone, CERN openlab's Director of Technology, in charge of the strategy for developing cutting-edge computing solutions for the scientific community.

Registration required - Limited places

Event organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Fête de la Science, in collaboration with the Pangloss Labs association, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux and the City of Ferney-Voltaire. Find the complete program of the Village of Science and Biodiversity of Ferney-Voltaire on panglosslabs.org/fdl-2021.

Seminar: Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Science, Industry and Society

Time: 12:00 PM Location: Online Location in CERN maps:

Following the success of the inaugural symposium in 2019, we are now organizing the second iteration of the symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Science, Industry, and Society (AISIS).  The event is being organized principally by UNAM, the largest university in Latin America, but will be held fully online due to the current global situation.

The symposium aims to cover a wide variety of topics, from science to industry to society, as per its namesake. As this iteration of the symposium will be online-only, we are changing the format a bit.  In particular, instead of having live talks, we are going to organize pre-recorded talks followed by a live panel discussion amongst experts on a given topic.  We hope that this strategy will better support the participation of people from a variety of time zones, while still retaining the key discussions as live events where everyone can contribute.