CERN is no longer a European Organisation. Actually, it never really was ("who ordered that?" for those who know CERN history). Since nothing really new has emerged in HEP in the last few decades, CERN is trying to grow into an international lab, as opposed to European, mostly for scaling/funding purposes (USA, Japan, Russia, China have actually built most of LHC: Russian in kinds (steel, calos, beryllium etc.), Japanese semi (HAMA PMT, trackers etc), USA hw/sw (intel, Oracle, RedHat, DDN, Force10, DLT, FPGA) and Chinese assembly (any SKU built over 50 pcs-s)).
And since theoretical and applied physics needs ever more PR to get attention, they are also trying to dress up as a technology provider hub, forgetting to mention, that most of what is there is COTS. The ("management") problem is not unlike the one that "killed" NASA (which it was modelled upon in terms of matrix management).
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper
What an euphemism. Almost like a scam.
btw: .il was already quite present on every level, obviously, so this is just a formality -- Turkey is somewhat different in this respect.
And since theoretical and applied physics needs ever more PR to get attention, they are also trying to dress up as a technology provider hub, forgetting to mention, that most of what is there is COTS. The ("management") problem is not unlike the one that "killed" NASA (which it was modelled upon in terms of matrix management).
"How should we make it attractive for them [young people] to spend 5,6,7 years in our field, be satisfied, learn about excitement, but finally be qualified to find other possibilities?" -- H. Schopper
What an euphemism. Almost like a scam.
btw: .il was already quite present on every level, obviously, so this is just a formality -- Turkey is somewhat different in this respect.