1 00:00:00,250 --> 00:00:03,715 So I started our picture, where we had supercomputers, at the University of 2 00:00:03,715 --> 00:00:06,482 Illinois. We went to the University of Michigan, we 3 00:00:06,482 --> 00:00:10,128 got the NSFNet funded. And now we're going to fly across the 4 00:00:10,128 --> 00:00:12,870 ocean to CERN. CERN, of course, is a high-energy physics 5 00:00:12,870 --> 00:00:16,337 laboratory. They do this 26 mile circle and smash 6 00:00:16,337 --> 00:00:21,855 particles and take pictures of the smashing particles and looking for the 7 00:00:21,855 --> 00:00:24,412 Higgs- Boson. Or found the Higgs-Boson. 8 00:00:24,412 --> 00:00:29,230 it's a really cool place, I recommend that you visit. 9 00:00:29,230 --> 00:00:35,845 The CERN is a place that physicists from all over the world visit, live at and 10 00:00:35,845 --> 00:00:39,454 collaborate with. for experimental physics, it really 11 00:00:39,454 --> 00:00:42,390 revolves around those experimental facilities. 12 00:00:42,390 --> 00:00:46,875 And so, regardless of whether you live in Russia or Australia or Germany or America 13 00:00:46,875 --> 00:00:49,941 or Japan. If you're an energy nuclear physicist, 14 00:00:49,941 --> 00:00:53,180 you have got to work with CERN or spend time at CERN. 15 00:00:53,180 --> 00:00:57,520 And those who spent time at CERN tend to make the best discoveries. 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,348 And so, these projects have such long lead times, and they take so many 17 00:01:01,348 --> 00:01:05,572 different kinds of talented people, you know they're metallurgy, welders, 18 00:01:05,572 --> 00:01:09,928 physicists, engineers, designers, project managers, there's a ton of people 19 00:01:09,928 --> 00:01:12,300 involved in it. And it's a pretty well funded operation. 20 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:16,116 And everyone's pretty smart. So one of the things they do is they have 21 00:01:16,116 --> 00:01:19,76 fun. They have these clubs, like the softball 22 00:01:19,76 --> 00:01:23,559 club, the cricket club, the blues club. And, and it's kind of like these people 23 00:01:23,559 --> 00:01:26,826 are somewhat away from home a lot. And so they just have fun with each 24 00:01:26,826 --> 00:01:29,856 other. This is a picture that I will show you of 25 00:01:29,856 --> 00:01:32,699 the CERN. They are famous for being the first band 26 00:01:32,699 --> 00:01:35,394 photo on the web. Some people wonder if they're the very 27 00:01:35,394 --> 00:01:39,599 first photo on the web. But they are a doo-wop group and they 28 00:01:39,599 --> 00:01:45,360 sing sort of, 50s style doo-wop songs. They are very fun to watch. 29 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:50,376 But their songs are about like particles and Internet and modems and stuff like 30 00:01:50,376 --> 00:01:56,0 that, stuff that I care a lot about. Sadly, they've doing this since the 31 00:01:56,0 --> 00:02:00,761 1990's you know, 90, 91, 92 kind of time-frame. 32 00:02:00,761 --> 00:02:05,51 and the all grew up and their kids grew up and their kids are all in college and 33 00:02:05,51 --> 00:02:09,146 so the did their farewell tour in 2011 and I And one of em's moved to Australia 34 00:02:09,146 --> 00:02:13,566 so we don't know if the Cernet's are ever going to get back and together and sing 35 00:02:13,566 --> 00:02:19,43 but for now they're on permanent hiatus. But, for your viewing pleasure take a 36 00:02:19,43 --> 00:02:23,120 quick look at one or more of the Cernet's songs. 37 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:27,660 So like I said you should go visit Cern. I have had the great fortune to visit 38 00:02:27,660 --> 00:02:30,998 Cern. I had visit Cern with at on professional 39 00:02:30,998 --> 00:02:35,451 in a professional role, I helped them record lectures with my syncomatic 40 00:02:35,451 --> 00:02:38,314 software that you may have heard me talk about. 41 00:02:38,314 --> 00:02:44,298 I, I have visited sort of in helping other technology things and I teaching 42 00:02:44,298 --> 00:02:48,130 and learning with technology and things like that. 43 00:02:48,130 --> 00:02:53,80 And so they've got a a wonderful cafe And if you were working with people, you get 44 00:02:53,80 --> 00:02:55,860 to go in the back and hang out. That's pretty cool. 45 00:02:55,860 --> 00:03:00,660 But they also have a wonderful museum that you can go see, the first web server 46 00:03:00,660 --> 00:03:05,662 and all kinds of other cool stuff. And in 2006, I was lucky enough to have 47 00:03:05,662 --> 00:03:11,550 an invited talk at CERN where I talked about Sikai and how they might use Sikai 48 00:03:11,550 --> 00:03:16,30 to do collaborative work, and I brought my family with me. 49 00:03:16,30 --> 00:03:21,480 And so my wife Theresa, and my daughter Mandy, and my son Brent, and there's me. 50 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:27,483 we were in the pit, and this pit is like, like eight or nine stories underground, 51 00:03:27,483 --> 00:03:31,600 it is six stories tall. This is where the beam comes in right 52 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:33,754 here. It's three stories from the bottom of the 53 00:03:33,754 --> 00:03:35,339 pit. The pit is six stories tall. 54 00:03:36,590 --> 00:03:42,356 At this point the it was only less than one third complete and so we can go on a 55 00:03:42,356 --> 00:03:47,278 tour, and so I have a family photo with hardhats in the Cern Pit. 56 00:03:47,278 --> 00:03:51,60 And that's pretty cool. Another time I visited I went[UNKNOWN] 57 00:03:51,60 --> 00:03:54,290 with one of our University of Michigan phyisisct. 58 00:03:54,290 --> 00:03:57,680 That would be this guy right here, his name is Steven Goldfarb. 59 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:04,272 He's a physicist who works on the Atlas project, but he also is the band leader 60 00:04:04,272 --> 00:04:09,180 of a all physicist band called the CERNettes blues band. 61 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:14,680 He let me sing a song I was coming to do some video work for him. 62 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,96 I happened to be in the area and I just stopped by on one of my trips and me and 63 00:04:19,96 --> 00:04:23,650 another Michigan staffer we grabbed a couple of cameras and made some music 64 00:04:23,650 --> 00:04:26,198 videos for him. We put the[UNKNOWN] , some of 65 00:04:26,198 --> 00:04:30,620 the[UNKNOWN] music videos up on the web and then they let me sing one song called 66 00:04:30,620 --> 00:04:34,774 I Go,Got My Mojo Working and so I got I'll share with you the Video got my mojo 67 00:04:34,774 --> 00:04:38,684 workin'. That's just, oh so, everybody in this 68 00:04:38,684 --> 00:04:42,400 band is a physicist. And pretty much everybody dancing is a 69 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,568 physicist too. Now the reason I'm showing you all this 70 00:04:45,568 --> 00:04:50,230 is to give you a sense of the energy and joy, in addition to the hard work, that 71 00:04:50,230 --> 00:04:54,846 goes on at Cern. So I don't know if you noticed, halfway 72 00:04:54,846 --> 00:04:58,616 through, I knew that song by heart, but I had still written lyrics on my hand and 73 00:04:58,616 --> 00:05:02,400 so halfway through you can see me look at my hand to check the lyrics that I knew. 74 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,710 Made me look like a dork. I'm not, I really want to sing. 75 00:05:05,710 --> 00:05:10,270 I'm just not a very good singer, and thankfully Steve let me sing with the 76 00:05:10,270 --> 00:05:13,590 band. So, back to the topic at hand In 1999 I 77 00:05:13,590 --> 00:05:19,830 visited CERN as one of my first tasks at the University of Michigan to help them 78 00:05:19,830 --> 00:05:24,762 with lecture recording. And I said hey I got a camera, you know, 79 00:05:24,762 --> 00:05:28,220 are the inventors of the world wide web here. 80 00:05:28,220 --> 00:05:31,180 And we still had a little bit of the televison show going back then. 81 00:05:31,180 --> 00:05:34,210 So I went and interviewed Robert Cailliau who was still at CERN. 82 00:05:34,210 --> 00:05:37,70 He was just sort of across the street from the cafeteria. 83 00:05:37,70 --> 00:05:41,38 And we walked in to his office and gave him the microphone and just started 84 00:05:41,38 --> 00:05:43,710 talking about the beginnings of the World Wide Web. 85 00:05:43,710 --> 00:05:48,298 And Robert Cailliau is the co-inventor of the World Wide Web along with Tim 86 00:05:48,298 --> 00:05:53,102 Berners-Lee who, who built it at CERN. So let's take a listen to Robert 87 00:05:53,102 --> 00:05:53,944 Cailliau.