During the fourth phase (2012-2014) addressed new topics crucial to the CERN scientific programme, such as cloud computing, business analytics, the next generation of hardware, and security for the myriads of network devices.
The discovery of the Higgs boson marked an important step towards understanding the fundamental laws which underpin the universe. This elusive particle, thought to be at the very root of the existence of mass, has been the focus of experiments carried out at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN on the French-Swiss border.