Glossary
- CERN:
- originally named after its
1953 founding body, the "Conseil
Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire",
the institute is now named "European
Laboratory for Particle Physics".
- document:
- a piece of information
that has an identifier. Its contents
may be held in a file or it may be
synthesised (e.g. the
result of a
data-base query).
- hypertext:
- text which contains links
to other texts, whereby the following
of links (navigation) is aided by
computer
.
- Internet:
- the comglomerate of computer
networks on which the common high-level
IP protocol is available.
- Member States:
- current member states
are: Austria, Belgium, the Czech
and Slovak Republics, Denmark, Finland,
France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switze
rland
and the United Kingdom.
- web:
- the set of documents available
on the internet*, interlinked by
their hypertext* links
- SLAC:
- Stanford Linear Accelerator
Center, a High-Energy Physics institute
in California
.
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