Talk proposals

During the Open Days, we would like to organise a number of short IT related talks. These should be around 10 minutes in length with some time for questions afterwards. We would like to collect your ideas and hence encourage you to submit proposals below.

Talk proposals

Title Authored by Abstract Link
There's no Cloud. It's just other people's computers. gekaklam

A lot of people have heard the term "Cloud Computing", but most of them have no idea what this means. Or even why it's called like that.

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Working with industry to tackle tomorrow's computing challenges today apurcell

Please find the proposed presentation here: https://cernbox.cern.ch/index.php/s/UqLSGVTC6DuftVY

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Internet Xchange Point - how you get your Internet data pocock

To help locals relate to CERN & understand that their data "passes thru" our Computer Centre via their Internet Service Provider & understand how the backbone works

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Cyber-criminals versus you and me slopiens

Why do cyber-criminals target people like you and me? And how can we protect our computers, our data - and our online identities?

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Computer centres for dummies ibarrien

A collection of simple concepts explained with simple words to explain what happens under the hood when you click or tap on the screen of your home device: what your phone or computer asks for, how

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How green is our computer center ? lefebure

How green is our computer center ? (power consumption, cooling challenges, what do we do with old hardware,...)

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Computing for Physics, yesterday, today and tomorrow markusw

An updated talk on the history of computing at CERN. 

If I remember correctly we had something like this at the last CERN OpenDays 

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