History of Fundamental and Applied Sciences Achievements in Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Biomass Energy – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Thanks to a Department of Energy program managed by ORNL for 20 years, industry has a more efficient source of pulp fiber and wood for making paper, construction materials, and furniture     more...

History of Fundamental and Applied Sciences Achievements in Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Information Centers – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Forty years ago, then ORNL Director Alvin Weinberg headed a presidential panel to study the problem of handling rapidly growing amounts of data. The panel recommended the creation of specialized information centers to review, analyze, condense, and interpret scientific     more...

Tim Berners-Lee about the Web: from physics to fundamental right

Developed by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989 as a way to manage project information at the laboratory, the Web has since infiltrated the globe and affected the way we communicate, educate, entertain, inform and govern. Twenty years after the technology became a publicly available service     more...