[Mitworld] New: Bill Gates on Software and Anne Margulies on OCW

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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science presents

Bill Gates
Chairman, Chief Software Architect, and Co-Founder
Microsoft Corporation

"Software Breakthroughs: Solving the Toughest Problems in Computer Science"

Bill Gates came to MIT in February to talk about the next generation 
of software and the challenges and opportunities facing the software 
industry.  EECS Department Head John V. Guttag moderates the Q&A 
session following Gates' presentation.

Go directly to the page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/209/

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Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) presents

Anne H. Margulies
Executive Director, MIT's OpenCourseWare

"The OpenCourseWare Initiative: A New Model for Sharing"

Anne Margulies provides an overview of the success of MIT's 
OpenCourseWare, which has now published 700 MIT courses on the web. 
She explains the project in the context of MIT's greater educational 
mission and shares world-wide reaction.

  Go directly to the page at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/208/.

This is the first of two lectures from the 2nd Annual LINC Symposium. 
A talk from  Patricio Lopez Del Puerto, President of the Virtual 
University, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico will be on MIT World in 
late August.




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