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Computer Security: Go clever! Go central!
Running your own computing hardware, installation stack, (web) applications, databases, etc., is just not cost effective and usually you won’t be able to commit the required attention to keeping those systems sufficiently secure
Victory for CERN runners at the Geneva marathon
A CERN team was victorious at the Harmony Geneva Marathon for UNICEF winning the Challenge Entreprise with an average time of less than 3 hours for each runner!
CERN’s diversity on display at Ethnopoly in Meyrin
For the tenth year running, CERN took part in Ethnopoly, a life-size scavenger hunt that invites primary school pupils to discover Meyrin’s wealth of cultural diversity
CERN pays tribute to Murray Gell-Mann
The Nobel laureate, who coined the name “quarks”, passed away on 24 May
LS2 Report: the insulation of the LHC diodes has begun
Work has begun to improve the electrical insulation of the diodes of the 1232 dipole magnets in the LHC
CERN Alumni Network turns two
Celebrate the anniversary at CERN’s Restaurant 1 from 3 to 7 June
Procedure for obtaining VISAS for Switzerland and France – Signature rights
In accordance with the Status Agreements with CERN, Switzerland and France facilitate the entry of members of the Organization’s personnel on to their territories
CMS hunts for dark photons coming from the Higgs boson
The CMS collaboration has searched for collision events in which the Higgs boson transforms into a photon and a hypothetical dark photon
ALICE and LHCb upgrade their data centres
In autumn 2018 and spring 2019, new data-centre modules were installed and commissioned at the ALICE and LHCb sites (points 2 and 8 of the LHC)