Descripción: Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams," Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own career and personal goals. For more, visit cmu.edu/randyslecture.

Descripción: Charles Osgood takes a look at the life of Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, who became famous after his "Last Lecture" appeared on YouTube and inspired millions around the world.

Descripción: A student stands up in the middle of class and starts brilliantly singing a broadway style musical. Even the Professor (James Valentini) was laughing at this!!!! Starring Mike Barry With Kate Berthhold, Trey McArver, and Patrick Young Lyrics (written by Brian Jacobs) Hey teach! I've got a question -- what I mean is. . . it's just. . . We come to class everyday it seems, we all fal...

Descripción: Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave a lecture on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch -- http:// randypausch.com -- is a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center -- http:// etc.cmu.edu -- and creator of the Alice -- http:// alice.org -- software project. The slides...

Descripción: Lecture by Professor Jerry Cain for Programming Paradigms (CS107) in the Stanford University Computer Science department. Professor Cain provides an overview of the course. Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, Scheme, and Python. The class aims to teach students how to write code for each of these individua...

Descripción: Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconducto...

Descripción: http:// firstgiving.com/randypausch PLEASE donate to the Randy Pausch pancreatic cancer research fund. Dr. Randy Pausch has passed away this morning on July 25, 2008. He will be GREATLY missed but his words and teachings will live on FOREVER! This is a video that everyone should see. For those of you who aren't familiar with who Dr. Randy Pausch is, the short story goes like this: He i...

Descripción: Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination. The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels ...

Descripción: Lecture 1 in a five part series introducing mapreduce and cluster computing. See http://code.google.com/edu/content/submissions/mapreduce-minilecture/listing.html for slides and other resources.

Descripción: German American Business Association of California, Inc. and the MIT Club of Northern California Clean Technology Program invite you to this joint event. Towards Energy Autonomy New Politics for Renewable Energy. This is also the topic of Hermann Scheer's latest book. Hermann Scheer will discuss how policy models fostering renewable energy can pave the way for energy autonomy. He will also discuss...

Descripción: A clip from ABC about Dr. Randy Pausch's memorable lecture.

Descripción: Lecture by Professor Jerry Cain for Programming Paradigms (CS107) in the Stanford University Computer Science department. In this lecture, Prof. Cain introduces a new programming paradigm, the functional paradigm, and begins lecturing on the Scheme programming language. Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, S...

Descripción: Don't like QED rules? Tough. 1979 at New Zeland lecture, also available at scs-intl.com. 378KB, 74 secs Linus Pauling, a few months before his death at age 93. He spoke for 1 hour

Descripción: Lecture by Professor Jerry Cain for Programming Paradigms (CS107) in the Stanford University Computer Science department. In this lecture, Prof. Cain introduces Python, a scripting language, by providing a basic overview of the language and some examples. Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, Scheme, and Pyth...

Descripción: Lecture by Professor Jerry Cain for Programming Paradigms (CS107) in the Stanford University Computer Science department. In this lecture, Prof. Cain discusses C and C++ programming, including bit patterns, memory copy, and linear search. Programming Paradigms (CS107) introduces several programming languages, including C, Assembly, C++, Concurrent Programming, Scheme, and Python. The class ai...

Descripción: Dr. Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon professor who became a Web sensation after sharing his thoughts on life in his "Last Lecture," died at his home at the age of 47. Richard Schlesinger reports.

Descripción: I was invited to Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont to speak about the dancing video and how it was made. Here is the talk.

Descripción: Physics 10: Physics for Future Presidents. Spring 2006. Professor Richard A. Muller. The most interesting and important topics in physics, stressing conceptual understanding rather than math, with applications to current events. Topics covered may vary and may include energy and conservation, radioactivity, nuclear physics, the Theory of Relativity, lasers, explosions, earthquakes, superconducto...

Descripción: A distinguished scholar of Buddhism, Lewis Lancaster founded the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative to use the latest computer technology to map the spread of various strands of Buddhism from the distant past to the present. Series: "Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society" [6/2008] [Humanities] [Show ID: 14331]

Descripción: Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics course concentrating on Quantum Mechanics. Recorded January 14, 2008 at Stanford University. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the second of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on quantum mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch ...