Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
> Date: October 23, 2017 at 6:34:38 PM EDT
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> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online
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> Stephen Hawking's Ph.D. Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online
>
> October 23, 2017 3:43 PM ET
>
> Interest in "Properties of Expanding Universes" is at an all-time high: Stephen Hawking's doctoral thesis of that 
> name has crashed Cambridge University's open-access repository on the first day the document was posted online.
>
> The Cambridge Library made several PDF files of the thesis available for download from its website, from what it 
> called a high-resolution "72 Mb" file to a digitized version that's less than half that file size. A "reduced" 
> version was offered that was even smaller — but intense interest overwhelmed the servers.
>
> By late Monday local time, the thesis had been viewed more than 60,000 times, says Stuart Roberts, deputy head of 
> research communications at Cambridge. He added, "Other popular theses might have 100 views per month."
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> http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/23/559582380/stephen-hawkings-ph-d-thesis-crashes-cambridge-site-after-it-s-posted-online



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