Editor's bench [The Remarkable I&M Technologies of CERN]

The magazine you now hold is a celebration - a special issue highlighting the remarkable I&M technologies of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. I&M Magazine readers will know of CERN's exi s tence and its importance to the world of high-energy physics. This issue is devoted to the technologies that make CERN work and enable studies at the true cutting edge of physics. In these pages are articles discussing technologies that will be familiar and exotic at the same time. We use data acquisition, but not tens of millions of channels at a time. We are aware of superconducting magnets; CERN has 27 km of them. The scope is huge. The I&M challenges are correspondingly huge, and the solutions will fascinate you. This issue provides a forum for some of CERN's technology groups to share their remarkable work with us.