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March 30, 2010
Smashing good science
Particle beams are colliding at the highest energies ever reached by a man-made accelerator, at Switzerland’s CERN research facility – and that has Canadian scientists cheering. For SFU physicists Mike Vetterli, just back from CERN, and Dugan O’Neil (currently in Paris) word that the long-awaited ATLAS project is now successfully underway (beginning this morning) is welcome news. They’ve spent more than a decade, along with hundreds of global researchers, contributing key elements to the research program - dubbed the world’s biggest physics experiment – and will play a new role in the massive collection and analysis of data collection. The project is expected to shed new light on how the universe works. They can explain the project and why we should care about it.
See: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/lhc-first-physics/
For more information about Canadian involvement, see http://www.atlas-canada.ca/
Mike Vetterli, 778.782.5488; vetm@triumf.ca; michel_vetterli@sfu.ca
Dugan O’Neil, dugan_oneil@sfu.ca
The tyranny of e-mail
The average worker spends 40 percent of their workday sending and receiving more than 200 e-mails, according to a new bestselling book, The Tyranny of E-Mail. SFU's Andrew Feenberg has been studying technology for more than 40 years and though he agrees that e-mail is getting out of hand, he feels it's a valuable communication tool. It's up to us how we use it, he contends. Feenberg, who is SFU’s Canada Research Chair in the philosophy of technology, and a communication professor, can provide insights on e-mail, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other modern communication technologies.
Andrew Feenberg, 778.782.5169, feenberg@sfu.ca
Particle beams are colliding at the highest energies ever reached by a man-made accelerator, at Switzerland’s CERN research facility – and that has Canadian scientists cheering. For SFU physicists Mike Vetterli, just back from CERN, and Dugan O’Neil (currently in Paris) word that the long-awaited ATLAS project is now successfully underway (beginning this morning) is welcome news. They’ve spent more than a decade, along with hundreds of global researchers, contributing key elements to the research program - dubbed the world’s biggest physics experiment – and will play a new role in the massive collection and analysis of data collection. The project is expected to shed new light on how the universe works. They can explain the project and why we should care about it.
See: http://press.web.cern.ch/press/lhc-first-physics/
For more information about Canadian involvement, see http://www.atlas-canada.ca/
Mike Vetterli, 778.782.5488; vetm@triumf.ca; michel_vetterli@sfu.ca
Dugan O’Neil, dugan_oneil@sfu.ca
The tyranny of e-mail
The average worker spends 40 percent of their workday sending and receiving more than 200 e-mails, according to a new bestselling book, The Tyranny of E-Mail. SFU's Andrew Feenberg has been studying technology for more than 40 years and though he agrees that e-mail is getting out of hand, he feels it's a valuable communication tool. It's up to us how we use it, he contends. Feenberg, who is SFU’s Canada Research Chair in the philosophy of technology, and a communication professor, can provide insights on e-mail, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other modern communication technologies.
Andrew Feenberg, 778.782.5169, feenberg@sfu.ca