Dr. Bernhard Widmann vom Technologie- und Förderzentrum (TFZ) referiert zum Thema Forschung, Beratung und Förderung für die Energieversorgung der Zukunft"

Das Higgs-Teilchen ist so gut wie gefunden – das heißt aber nicht, dass die Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler am CERN jetzt arbeitslos sind. Auf ihrer „unerledigt“-Liste stehen noch Themen wie die Dunkle Materie oder die Supersymmetrie (SUSY). Im „Café und Kosmos“ (10.7., 19:00, Vereinsheim, Occamstr. 8) erklärt der Münchner Physiker Dieter Lüst, der auch an der Forschung am CERN beteiligt ist, die Stringtheorie – und welche Rolle SUSY und das Higgs dabei spielen.

Richard Stallman will be visiting us in Munich in mid-July. On July 11th at 18:00 he will give a public talk in English on "Copyright vs. Community" at the Technische Universität München. The talk will be in the "Rudolf-Diesel" Hörsal "MW 2001" on the Campus Garching. Registration is not required, but you can register with the Free Software Foundation for notifications about related activities here.

Copyright developed in the age of the printing press, and was designed to fit with the system of centralized copying imposed by the printing press. But the copyright system does not fit well with computer networks, and only draconian punishments can enforce it. The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public access to technology. This applies to scientific publishing too: scholarly articles must permit redistribution and remix for the good of science. We must strip the journal publishers of the power to prevent this. If we seriously hope for copyright to serve its only legitimate purpose --to promote progress, for the benefit of the public-- then we must make changes in the other direction.