September 27, 2013

On September 27, 1983 Richard Stallman announced the birth of the GNU project. This acronym stands for “GNU’s Not Unix” and indicates a willingness to create a Unix-compatible operating system but with the fundamental characteristic of being free. The point was that no one had to pay for permission to use the GNU system.

The Low Energy Ion Ring (LEIR) at CERN

The British company Advanced Oncotherapy announced the acquisition of ADAM S.A., a CERN spinoff, meaning a company created to develop commercial applications of technologies initially created for scientific purposes. In this case, it’s a less expensive and more advanced version of the proton beam therapy, a form of radiation therapy used for the treatment of tumors.