The Development of Digital Technology: From the Creation of the Web to the Fourth Industrial Revolution
ASAGE invites you to attend this lecture by Mr. François Flückiger, presented under the patronage of Ms. Odile Soupison, Consul General of France in Geneva.
This event will also serve as an introduction to the next edition of the “Solstice des Centraliens et des Supélec,” a global web conference that, building on the discussions from the most recent World Economic Forum in Davos, will address the following timely topic this year:
“Toward a New Industrial Revolution?… The Digital Transformation of Industries.” You are all invited to participate.
6:30 p.m.: Welcome by the Consul
7:15 p.m.: Lecture by Mr. Flückiger
8:30 p.m.: Cocktail reception
Location: Residence of the French Consul, Cologny, Geneva
Registration deadline: June 8, 2016.
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François Flückiger
François Flückiger holds a degree in engineering from the École Supérieure d’Électricité (Supélec) and an MBA from the Institut d’Administration des Entreprises de Paris, Panthéon–Sorbonne University.
A leading computer scientist at CERN, he was inducted in 2013 into the Internet Hall of Fame—the “Pantheon” of the Internet—which honors individuals recognized by the Internet Society for their vision and major contributions to the development of the Internet. He thus joined Louis Pouzin, a pioneer of the Internet, in this Pantheon. In fact, they are the only French nationals to have received this high honor.
“CERN is known as the birthplace of the Web, but less so for its contribution to the development of the Internet,” says François Flückiger. “In the early 1990s, CERN was the largest Internet platform in Europe, and 80 percent of the Web’s capacity was located in what was then the CERN Computing Center.”
As director of the CERN School of Computing from 2003 to 2013, his responsibilities also included managing the CERN World Wide Web team after the Web’s inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, left for MIT (USA). In 1994, he organized “the first-ever release of the CERN web software.”
Previously, he had already been a passionate advocate for the promotion of the Internet in Europe. In 1988, he organized the founding meeting of the organization Réseaux IP Européens (RIPE), which oversees the technical coordination of the Internet infrastructure, and in 1992, he helped create Ebone, the pan-European Internet backbone.
He has also served on the advisory boards of the Internet Society (ISOC) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), taught as a lecturer at the University of Geneva, and authored the textbook *Understanding Networked Multimedia* and more than 80 articles.
