So I started our picture, where we had 
supercomputers, at the University of 
Illinois. 
We went to the University of Michigan, we 
got the NSFNet funded. 
And now we're going to fly across the 
ocean to CERN. 
CERN, of course, is a high-energy physics 
laboratory. 
They do this 26 mile circle and smash 
particles and take pictures of the 
smashing particles and looking for the 
Higgs- Boson. 
Or found the Higgs-Boson. 
it's a really cool place, I recommend 
that you visit. 
The CERN is a place that physicists from 
all over the world visit, live at and 
collaborate with. 
for experimental physics, it really 
revolves around those experimental 
facilities. 
And so, regardless of whether you live in 
Russia or Australia or Germany or America 
or Japan. 
If you're an energy nuclear physicist, 
you have got to work with CERN or spend 
time at CERN. 
And those who spent time at CERN tend to 
make the best discoveries. 
And so, these projects have such long 
lead times, and they take so many 
different kinds of talented people, you 
know they're metallurgy, welders, 
physicists, engineers, designers, project 
managers, there's a ton of people 
involved in it. 
And it's a pretty well funded operation. 
And everyone's pretty smart. 
So one of the things they do is they have 
fun. 
They have these clubs, like the softball 
club, the cricket club, the blues club. 
And, and it's kind of like these people 
are somewhat away from home a lot. 
And so they just have fun with each 
other. 
This is a picture that I will show you of 
the CERN. 
They are famous for being the first band 
photo on the web. 
Some people wonder if they're the very 
first photo on the web. 
But they are a doo-wop group and they 
sing sort of, 50s style doo-wop songs. 
They are very fun to watch. 
But their songs are about like particles 
and Internet and modems and stuff like 
that, stuff that I care a lot about. 
Sadly, they've doing this since the 
1990's you know, 90, 91, 92 kind of 
time-frame. 
and the all grew up and their kids grew 
up and their kids are all in college and 
so the did their farewell tour in 2011 
and I And one of em's moved to Australia 
so we don't know if the Cernet's are ever 
going to get back and together and sing 
but for now they're on permanent hiatus. 
But, for your viewing pleasure take a 
quick look at one or more of the Cernet's 
songs. 
So like I said you should go visit Cern. 
I have had the great fortune to visit 
Cern. 
I had visit Cern with at on professional 
in a professional role, I helped them 
record lectures with my syncomatic 
software that you may have heard me talk 
about. 
I, I have visited sort of in helping 
other technology things and I teaching 
and learning with technology and things 
like that. 
And so they've got a a wonderful cafe And 
if you were working with people, you get 
to go in the back and hang out. 
That's pretty cool. 
But they also have a wonderful museum 
that you can go see, the first web server 
and all kinds of other cool stuff. 
And in 2006, I was lucky enough to have 
an invited talk at CERN where I talked 
about Sikai and how they might use Sikai 
to do collaborative work, and I brought 
my family with me. 
And so my wife Theresa, and my daughter 
Mandy, and my son Brent, and there's me. 
we were in the pit, and this pit is like, 
like eight or nine stories underground, 
it is six stories tall. 
This is where the beam comes in right 
here. 
It's three stories from the bottom of the 
pit. 
The pit is six stories tall. 
At this point the it was only less than 
one third complete and so we can go on a 
tour, and so I have a family photo with 
hardhats in the Cern Pit. 
And that's pretty cool. 
Another time I visited I went[UNKNOWN] 
with one of our University of Michigan 
phyisisct. 
That would be this guy right here, his 
name is Steven Goldfarb. 
He's a physicist who works on the Atlas 
project, but he also is the band leader 
of a all physicist band called the 
CERNettes blues band. 
He let me sing a song I was coming to do 
some video work for him. 
I happened to be in the area and I just 
stopped by on one of my trips and me and 
another Michigan staffer we grabbed a 
couple of cameras and made some music 
videos for him. 
We put the[UNKNOWN] , some of 
the[UNKNOWN] music videos up on the web 
and then they let me sing one song called 
I Go,Got My Mojo Working and so I got 
I'll share with you the Video got my mojo 
workin'. 
That's just, oh so, everybody in this 
band is a physicist. 
And pretty much everybody dancing is a 
physicist too. 
Now the reason I'm showing you all this 
is to give you a sense of the energy and 
joy, in addition to the hard work, that 
goes on at Cern. 
So I don't know if you noticed, halfway 
through, I knew that song by heart, but I 
had still written lyrics on my hand and 
so halfway through you can see me look at 
my hand to check the lyrics that I knew. 
Made me look like a dork. 
I'm not, I really want to sing. 
I'm just not a very good singer, and 
thankfully Steve let me sing with the 
band. 
So, back to the topic at hand In 1999 I 
visited CERN as one of my first tasks at 
the University of Michigan to help them 
with lecture recording. 
And I said hey I got a camera, you know, 
are the inventors of the world wide web 
here. 
And we still had a little bit of the 
televison show going back then. 
So I went and interviewed Robert Cailliau 
who was still at CERN. 
He was just sort of across the street 
from the cafeteria. 
And we walked in to his office and gave 
him the microphone and just started 
talking about the beginnings of the World 
Wide Web. 
And Robert Cailliau is the co-inventor of 
the World Wide Web along with Tim 
Berners-Lee who, who built it at CERN. 
So let's take a listen to Robert 
Cailliau.