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4 days ago · In 1965, Lawrence Roberts, a chief scientist for ARPA research, designed a small-scale network infrastructure that allowed two computers located in two different places to communicate. The two computers were linked using a single phone line and a modem enabling the transfer of digital data called “packets,” thus.
23 hours ago · Lawrence G. "Larry" Roberts (1937–2018) was an American computer scientist. After earning his PhD in electrical engineering from MIT in 1963, Roberts continued to work at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory where in 1965 he connected Lincoln Lab's TX-2 computer to the SDC Q-32 computer in Santa Monica .
2 days ago · The Manhattan Project was a research and development program undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was directed by Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
4 days ago · Scientists in Japan are calling for increased funding for basic research. Credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg via Getty. More than 500 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of...
1 day ago · He is best known to the general public for his invention of the technique of treating milk and wine to stop bacterial contamination, a process now called pasteurization. Pasteur also made significant discoveries in chemistry, most notably on the molecular basis for the asymmetry of certain crystals and racemization.
2 days ago · J. Robert Oppenheimer (born Julius Robert Oppenheimer; / ˈɒpənhaɪmər / OP-ən-hy-mər; April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist who served as the director of the Manhattan Project 's Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II.
4 days ago · 欧洲核子研究组织 （ CERN ，简称由其前身 欧洲核子研究理事会 缩写而来）成立于1954年9月29日，总部位于 瑞士 日内瓦 西北部郊区的法瑞边境上，享有 治外法权 。 欧洲核子研究组织拥有世界上最大的 粒子物理学 实验室。 CERN目前有23个成员国 [2] 。 以色列 是第一个也是目前唯一一个非 欧洲 成员国 [3] 。 CERN也被用来称呼它的实验室，其主要功能是为高能 物理学 研究的需要，提供 粒子加速器 和其它基础设施，以进行许多国际合作的实验。
