From Physics to Daily Life

From Physics to Daily Life

by Beatrice Bressan
Released November 2014
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9783527332861

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Book description

Beatrice Bressan brings together a number of outstanding examples of successful cross-disciplinary technology transfer originating in fundamental physics research, which dramatically impacted scientific progress in areas which changed modern society. Many of them were developed at CERN, a hotbed of fundamental inventions in particle physics. This book deals with breakthrough developments being applied in the world of IT, consumer electronics, aviation, and material sciences.

Additional sections of the book deal with knowledge management and technology transfer including their economic aspects. While each chapter has been drafted by an expert in the field, the editor has carefully edited the whole to ensure a coherent overall structure.

A must-have for policy makers, technology companies, investors, strategic planners in research and technology, as well as attractive reading for the research community.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Related Titles
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contributors' CVs
  7. Foreword
  8. List of Acronyms
  9. List of Units
  10. Chapter 1: Introduction
  11. Part I: Knowledge Management and Technology Transfer in an Organization
    1. Chapter 2: Knowledge Management: From Theory to Practice
      1. 2.1 Knowledge-Based and Innovative Organization
      2. 2.2 The Theory of Knowledge
      3. 2.3 The Core Processes of Managing Knowledge
      4. 2.4 The Knowledge Worker
      5. 2.5 The Knowledge Creation, Acquisition, and Transfer Model
      6. 2.6 Knowledge Management: A Case Study of CERN
  12. Part II: Examples of Knowledge and Technology Transfer
    1. Section 1: Linking Information
    2. Chapter 3: WWW and More
      1. 3.1 The First Page
      2. 3.2 Influences on the History of the Web
      3. 3.3 CERN's Role
      4. 3.4 What-if Musings
      5. 3.5 The Dark Sides of the Force
      6. 3.6 Good Stuff
      7. 3.7 On the Nature of Computing
      8. 3.8 Science ‘Un-human’
      9. 3.9 Lessons to be Learned
      10. 3.10 Conclusions
    3. Chapter 4: Grid and Cloud
      1. 4.1 Why a Grid?
      2. 4.2 A Production Infrastructure
      3. 4.3 Transferring Technology: Grids in Other Science Domains
      4. 4.4 How CERN Openlab has Contributed to the WLCG Grid
      5. 4.5 Four Basic Principles
      6. 4.6 Three-Year Phases
      7. 4.7 EGEE to EGI Transition
      8. 4.8 Lessons Learned and Anticipated Evolution
      9. 4.9 Transferring Technology: Grids in Business
      10. 4.10 Sharing Resources Through Grids
      11. 4.11 What are the Hurdles?
      12. 4.12 Philips Research: Scientific Simulation, Modelling and Data Mining Supports Healthcare
      13. 4.13 Finance: Stock Analysis Application
      14. 4.14 Multimedia: GridVideo
      15. 4.15 Imense: From Laboratory to Market
      16. 4.16 Total, UK
      17. 4.17 Seismic Imaging and Reservoir Simulation: CGG Veritas Reaping Benefits from the Grid
      18. 4.18 Societal Impact
      19. Acknowledgements
    4. Chapter 5: The ‘Touch Screen’ Revolution
      1. 5.1 The Birth of a Touch Screen
      2. 5.2 The Novelty for the Control Room of the CERN SPS Accelerator
      3. 5.3 A Touch Screen as Replacement for Mechanical Buttons
      4. 5.4 Attempts at Early Knowledge Transfer
      5. 5.5 Evolution Turned Into Revolution
      6. 5.6 Touch Screen and Human Behaviour
      7. Acknowledgements
    5. Section 2: Developing Future
    6. Chapter 6: Solar Thermal Electricity Plants
      1. 6.1 The Four STE Technologies
      2. 6.2 Optical Issues in the STE Plant
      3. 6.3 Thermodynamic Issues in the STE Plant
      4. 6.4 Issues in STE Plants Related to Heat Transfer
      5. 6.5 Thermal Storage of Energy
      6. 6.6 Fluid Mechanics
      7. Acknowledgements
    7. Chapter 7: Computers and Aviation
      1. 7.1 Computing in Structural and Aerodynamic Analysis
      2. 7.2 Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
      3. 7.3 Fly-By-Wire and Other On-Board Systems
      4. 7.4 Airborne Software
      5. 7.5 Ground-Based Computer Systems
      6. 7.6 Conclusions
    8. Chapter 8: Antimatter Pushing Boundaries
      1. 8.1 Science and the Unknown
      2. 8.2 Antimatter and CERN
      3. 8.3 The Anti-World in Everyday Life
      4. 8.4 Beyond the Present Day
    9. Section 3: Sustainability and Learning
    10. Chapter 9: Towards a Globally Focussed Earth Simulation Centre
      1. 9.1 A String of Disasters
      2. 9.2 Now is the Time
      3. 9.3 A Global Synthesis of Knowledge
      4. 9.4 Modelling and Simulation as a Platform for Collaboration
      5. 9.5 Advances in High-Performance Computing
      6. 9.6 Creating Value from Massive Data Pools
      7. 9.7 Interactive and Immersive 4D Visualizations
      8. 9.8 Leveraging the Many Layers of Computing
      9. 9.9 Getting a Complete Picture of the Whole Earth
      10. 9.10 Influence of the Solar System
      11. 9.11 Prediction and Uncertainty of Extreme Events
      12. 9.12 Impact on Cities and Bioregions
      13. 9.13 Towards Urban Resilience
      14. 9.14 Modelling the Whole-Earth System: A Challenge Whose Time has Come!
    11. Chapter 10: Radiation Detection in Environment and Classrooms
      1. 10.1 The Origins of the Hybrid Pixel Detector
      2. 10.2 Hybrid Pixel Detectors for High-Energy Physics
      3. 10.3 Hybrid Pixel Detectors for Imaging: The Medipix Chips
      4. 10.4 Applications
      5. 10.5 Back to High-Energy Physics
      6. 10.6 Collaboration, Organization and Serendipity
      7. Acknowledgements
    12. Chapter 11: Theory for Development
      1. 11.1 The Importance of Theoretical Research Through History
      2. 11.2 Knowledge Management and Science for Peace
  13. Part III: Economic Aspects of Knowledge Management and Technology Transfer
    1. Chapter 12: Innovation and Big Data
      1. 12.1 The Wealth of Nations: Agriculture, the Division of Labour, or Profits?
      2. 12.2 Industrialization and/or Exploitation
      3. 12.3 Perfect Competition, the Disappearance of Profits, Economies of Scale
      4. 12.4 Creative Destruction
      5. 12.5 Risk and Uncertainty
      6. 12.6 Accumulation Without Innovation
      7. 12.7 The Real Engine of Economic Growth
      8. 12.8 Endogenous Technological Change
      9. 12.9 The Appropriate Set of Market and Non-Market Institutions
      10. 12.10 Limitless Knowledge
      11. 12.11 Post-Scarcity and Networks
      12. 12.12 Intellectual Property Rights
      13. 12.13 Governments' Support of Scientific Research
      14. 12.14 The Remaining Scarce Resource is Human Creativity
      15. 12.15 Different Organizational Modes for Overcoming Uncertainty
      16. 12.16 Information and Allocation Gains of Peer Production
      17. 12.17 An Ecosystem of Technologies Leading to the Singularity?
      18. 12.18 Big Data Analytics and Data-Intensive Healthcare
    2. Chapter 13: Universities and Corporations: The Case of Switzerland
      1. 13.1 Background
      2. 13.2 KTT Activities in the Swiss Economy: The Main Facts from the Firm's Point of View
      3. 13.3 KTT Activities in the Swiss Economy: The Main Facts from the Science Institution Point of View
      4. 13.4 Analytical Part: Exploration of KTT Activities in Switzerland
      5. 13.5 Conclusion
    3. Chapter 14: Conclusion
  14. Author Index
  15. Index
  16. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: From Physics to Daily Life
  • Author(s): Beatrice Bressan
  • Release date: November 2014
  • Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
  • ISBN: 9783527332861