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The global-village pioneers

01 Oct 2008

Paul Ginsparg, who founded the arXiv e-print archive, recounts the early days of the Web and looks at how it has changed scientific communication

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Paul Ginsparg is a professor of physics and information science at Cornell University in the US
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