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  1. Bill Gates Brings Feynman Lectures Online / 17 July, 2009

    Microsoft Research, in collaboration with Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, launched a Web site that makes an acclaimed lecture series by Richard Feynman freely available to the general public for the first time. The lectures, which Feynman originally delivered at Cornell University in 1964, have been hugely influential for many people, including Gates. Gates privately [...]

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  2. Wired News about Elite Colleges / 31 December, 2007

    Wired News has published a big story by Justin Pope about the OpenCourse movement and free university lectures on the web: Internet Opens Elite Colleges to All You can find another interesting article on the website of the New York Times. It’s by Sara Rimer and features Professor Walter H. G. Lewin: At 71, Physics [...]

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  3. Free New York Times Archives / 18 September, 2007

    At midnight the New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its site. “In addition to opening the site to all readers, The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain”, writes [...]

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