Save the date to celebrate the Web@30 on 12 March 2019
The Web@30 event is happening at CERN and you can join it from anywhere in the world.
In 1989, CERN was a hive of ideas and information stored on multiple incompatible computers. Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a unifying structure for linking information across different computers, and wrote a proposal in March 1989 called “Information Management: A Proposal”. By 1991, this vision of universal connectivity had become the World Wide Web!
Editorial: Celebrate Astronomy in 2019 Under One Sky
Astronomy is a science that fascinates humankind. On the one hand astronomy touches on the largest philosophical questions facing us: Where do we come from? Where will we end? How did life arise? On the other hand, the beauty of the night sky is breathtaking, making astronomy quite attractive to the general public.
Editorial – Celebrating 50 years of EPS
As every reader of e-EPS knows, our society is celebrating this year its 50th anniversary – to be precise, on 26 September, the day in the year 1968 when the EPS was formally launched in the Aula Magna of the University of Geneva.
International Day of Light sees worldwide success
On 16 May 2018 the first International Day of Light celebrated the vital role of light and related technologies in science, culture and art, education and sustainable development. More than 600 events were held in 87 countries reaching hundreds of thousands of people, and a spectacular afternoon and evening celebration was also held at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, France.
