There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades- stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today. [Directed by Biljana Labovic, narrated by Tim Smith, music by Corey Allen Jackson].

Tim Smith: Big Data

Big Data

The creation of the web in the early 1990s revolutionized how physicists at CERN shared findings, transforming global communication.

CERN's transition from local computing to a global grid and cloud computing exemplifies the evolving landscape of big data analysis.

From mainframes to the web, CERN's big data evolution sparked the global internet, transforming worldwide communication.