As the subject says, if not to watch the Feynman lectures, then what else?
http://research.microsoft.com/tuva
NYT has this to say:
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/gates-puts-feynman-lectures-online/
[quote]
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates believes that if he had been able to
watch physicist Richard Feynman lecture on physics in 1964 his life
might have played out differently.
Mr. Gates, of course, is legendary as a Harvard University dropout who
went on to create the world’s most successful software firm. He has
told associates that if had watched the lectures earlier in his life
he might have become a physicist instead of a software entrepreneur.
However, Mr. Gates, who is also well known for his sharp and varied
intellectual interests and his philanthropic commitment to education,
said this week that he had purchased the rights to videos of seven
lectures that Dr. Feynman gave at Cornell University called “The
Character of Physical Law,” in an effort to make them broadly
available via the Internet.
Microsoft Research announced on Wednesday that Mr. Gates, who
purchased the rights to the videos privately from the Feynman estate,
BBC and from Cornell University, in cooperation with Curtis Wong, a
Microsoft researcher, has created a Web site that is intended to
enhance the videos by annotating them with related digital content.
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- Raja
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