# CERN **Domain:** Particle Physics / Research Infrastructure / International Science **Doc Type:** Institution Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[ATLAS Experiment]], [[World Wide Web]], [[Research Infrastructure]], [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]] --- ## Definition **CERN**, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is an international particle-physics laboratory whose accelerators, detectors, computing systems and collaborations make otherwise inaccessible physical events experimentally legible. ## Corpus Context CERN matters here as both a physics institution and a model of [[Distributed Intelligence|distributed intelligence]]: instruments, software, standards and thousands of researchers cooperate as one knowledge-producing system. It also joins fundamental physics to communication history through the creation of the World Wide Web at CERN. ## Directory Context This institution is indexed in [[Recommended Institutions and Signals]]. See also [[ATLAS Experiment]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [CERN](https://home.cern/) - [The birth of the Web](https://info.cern.ch/)