The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by trevyn » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:09 PM UTC

The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I
feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by doctorwho » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:14 PM UTC

Also...

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.

Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by GeorgeOrr » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:25 PM UTC

doctorwho wrote: post #2

Also... 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. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

Thanks for the link.

I'm really glad he's made this available on line. And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight.

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by 3327 » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:30 PM UTC

Gates is the man seriously for doing this. Feynman is such a great person I am so sad I missed seeing and learning from him. And Carl Sagan of course.

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:40 PM UTC

doctorwho wrote: post #2

Also... 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. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

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Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by loudmax » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:48 PM UTC

There are Feynman videos online as well, but unfortunately, they require Silverlight. Reading the headline, I was hoping that they'd finally made them available in an open format.

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by easytiger » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:53 PM UTC

GeorgeOrr wrote: post #3

doctorwho wrote: post #2

Also... 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. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

Thanks for the link. I'm really glad he's made this available on line. And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight.

> And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight

That's a very sad requirement indeed.

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by anaphor » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 1:59 PM UTC

GeorgeOrr wrote: post #3

doctorwho wrote: post #2

Also... 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. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

Thanks for the link. I'm really glad he's made this available on line. And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight.

Hopefully it will work with moonlight but somehow I doubt it. It's most likely for silly DRM reasons :(

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by gogras » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 2:06 PM UTC

GeorgeOrr wrote: post #3

doctorwho wrote: post #2

Also... 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. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

Thanks for the link. I'm really glad he's made this available on line. And at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, I wish it didn't require silverlight.

I wish the audio didn't have noise artifacts ("clicks") from SilverLight's encoding that make it a bit annoying to listen to after a while, and that Microsoft had listened to it after encodeing or would have been so kind as to fix after it was brought to their attention years ago.

Re: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Volume I

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Post by Luc » Fri, Sep 13, 2013, 2:07 PM UTC

doctorwho wrote: post #2

Also... 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. Project Tuva http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html

[2009], by the way.