CERN (l’Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire)

Translates from French as The European

Council for Nuclear Research, and is generally known as the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva, Switzerland.Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web (WWW) at CERN in 1989 as a collaborative tool for high-energy physicists. See Appendix A for contact information. See also Berners-Lee, Tim and WWW.

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• SMSC (Short Message Service Center)
• SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
• SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fouled Up)
• SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fouled Up)
• SNA (Systems Network Architecture)
• SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
• SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)
• SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio)
• SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture)
• social engineering
• socket
• SOCKS (SOCKetS)
• soft copy
• soft handoff
• softkey
• softphone
• softswitch
• software
• software-defined data network (SDDN)
• software-defined network (SDN)
• software-defined radio (SDR)
• software program
• SOHO (Small Office/Home Office)
• SOH (Section OverHead)
• sonar (sound navigation and ranging)