In 1973 I lived in Geneva, Switzerland.

I moved to Geneva, Switzerland, in 1973 to do a stage at CERN, shown in the picture below. On the map you'll see that as Genève, because in "Geneva" everyone speaks French, a fact that I learned only as I stepped off the plane to start my work term at CERN in January of 1973. Below all that rich farming land that you see in the picture are the cyclotrons - particle accelerators - that have been developed by the Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléar, the name for which CERN is the achronym.

At CERN they split atoms to help mankind better understand the laws of physics that hold the universe together. CERN was also the birthplace of the World Wide Web; the www was a natural outgrowth of the widespread need to share computing resources that was evident at CERN even prior to 1973 when I was there.

This was my first time in Europe, a continent that I knew almost nothing about. And this wet my appetite for moving back to Europe for a much longer stint with My Beloved And My Friend in 1982.

A better picture for this part would be one where I'm downhill skiing in the Alps, or walking beside Lac de Genève ("Lake Geneva", to the anglophones). But I'll get to that, perhaps, when time permits.

Last updated: April 7, 1998.