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History of the World Wide Web
Thursday April 19, 2007 from 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Swissnex
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco, California Get Directions
FREE event; registration required on the website www.swissnex.org

A presentation by James Gillies about the history and pre-history of the WWW, covering the period from the 1940's to 1994.
James Gillies is Head of Communications at CERN in Switzerland, the world's largest laboratory dedicated to fundamental physics research, and the place where Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He co-authored the book 'How the Web was Born'.

a word about swissnex:
swissnex connects the best of many worlds by bridging the knowledge, energy and competencies in science, higher education, art and innovation between Switzerland, the U.S.A. and Canada. Initiated by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) as a public-private venture, and managed in cooperation with the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, swissnex is an annex of the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco. Vital financial support is provided by public and private sponsors sharing swissnex' commitment to connecting the dots. swissnex is a member of an international network including SHARE Boston and Swiss House Singapore.
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