Technology Transfer from CERN

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In the quest to find out what matter is made of and how its different components interact, high-energy physics needs very sophisticated instruments using technologies and requiring performance that often exceed what is available to industry. New technologies are developed to solve specific needs at CERN, but these technologies are often applicable outside the physics laboratories. The most well known technology coming from CERN is the World Wide Web (WWW), originally developed to solve the information sharing need between physicists and laboratories. This technology was made freely available to everyone and is today part of the everyday modern communication.

In the quest to find out what matter is made of and how its different components interact, high-energy physics needs very sophisticated instruments using technologies and requiring performance that often exceed what is available to industry. New technologies are developed to solve specific needs at CERN, but these technologies are often applicable outside the physics laboratories. The most well known technology coming from CERN is the World Wide Web (WWW), originally developed to solve the information sharing need between physicists and laboratories. This technology was made freely available to everyone and is today part of the everyday modern communication.

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