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: (see links below for details of this model, numerous peer reviewed publications, and direct observational evidence) The first thing that any person can see is that the current standard model of the sun is highly inadequate. Its assumes that the top of the convection zone (photosphere) is the final stage in the mechanism that makes the sun shine. But this is not true. It has no explanation for the ...

Descripción: Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. Transcript of Steve Jobs' address: http://news-service.stanford.edu...

Descripción: Rappin' about CERN's Large Hadron Collider! Links below... Apparently YouTube fixed the sound! Still, Will Barras made two options trying to get around the original problems: Other YouTube:http:// youtube.com/watch?v=T3iryBLZCOQ Vimeo: http:// vimeo.com/1431471?pg=embed&sec=1431471 Vimeo is downloadable if you log in. There has been a lot of interest in the original mp3, lyrics, and v...

Descripción: Oprah Winfrey, global media leader and philanthropist, spoke to the Class of 2008 at Stanford's 117th Commencement on June 15, 2008. Winfrey drew on experiences from a career that began in 1976 when she co-anchored a television newscast, and she shared three lessons about feelings, failure and finding happiness. Transcript of Oprah Winfrey's commencement address: http://news-service.stanford....

Descripción: Not made by me,found it online,available for download on website Disney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair Use Synopsis: Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. ***Description taken from website*** Video Fo...

Descripción: Using an IR led array and some reflective tape, you can track fingers in thin air using the Wii Remote by Johnny Chung Lee, Carnegie Mellon University. The grid software is a custom program written using a C# wiimote library and DirectX. More information about the grid software can be found at http:// cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/

Descripción: Chapter 55 of the Holy Qur'an, entitled "The Most Gracious", "Ar-Rahman" in transliterated Arabic, and "الرَّحْمَنُ" in Arabic. The recitation is by Kamal Uddin. Download the audio at this link: http:// turntoislam.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=392&d=1161879121 Check out this website for more information on the Qur'an: http:// usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/

Descripción: Less than two years after launch, YouTube has become one the most-visited destinations on the web. With more than 100 million videos served daily, it may be the fastest-growing entertainment website in the history of the World Wide Web. Jawed Karim will explain the thought process and the events that led to the development of YouTube. Original high-quality WMV: http:// acm.uiuc.edu/conferenc...

Descripción: Renowned linguist Steven Pinker speaks at Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters about his book "The Stuff of Thought." This event took place on September 24, 2007, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Steven Pinker, please visit http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/books/stuff/index.html

Descripción: http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable The reactable, is a multi-user electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface. Several simultaneous performers share complete control over the instrument by moving physical objects on a luminous table surface. By moving and relating these objects, representing components of a classic modular synthesizer, users can create complex and dynamic soni...

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: 1/26/08 - I urge Anonymous to fight Scientology legally. My voice may not matter but I feel I need to speak up. How to Support the Fight: http:// xenu.net/support.html Find your representatives: http:// vote-smart.org/ Scientology vs. the IRS: http:// cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Cowen/essays/irs.html XENU TV on DVD: http:// xenutv.com/dvd.htm

Descripción: Describes the attacks that result from the remanence of encryption keys in DRAM after power loss. For more information, visit: http://citp.princeton.edu/memory

Descripción: President Michelle Bachelet discusses the current challenges Chile faces and what the new Chile-California agreement means for her country. Moderated by Professor Harley Shaiken Introduction by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau http:// clas.berkeley.edu Recorded June 12, 2008

Descripción: (1977) The computer graphics for the first Star Wars film was created by Larry Cuba in the 1970s at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) (at the time known as the Circle Graphics Habitat) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. For more information on the lab, visit our website -- evl.uic.edu

Descripción: I did not shoot this, the video is from the Daily Bruin site: http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=38960 The report from an independent investigator (pdf file): http:// newsroom.ucla.edu/taserreport/

Descripción: http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Physics/8-02Electricity-and-MagnetismSpring2002/VideoLectures/ Lecture #16

Descripción: Lecture 4: Clustering Algorithms with MapReduce. See http://code.google.com/edu/content/submissions/mapreduce-minilecture/listing.htmlfor slides and other resources.

Descripción: Советы, как воплотить мечты в жизнь, от человека, которого не сломила даже смертельная болезнь. Книга "Последняя лекция": http:// cs.virginia.edu/robins/Randy_Book.html