CNET
News: Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates has managed to
fulfill a personal dream of taking some classic physics
lectures and making them available free over the Web.The
lectures, done in 1964 by noted scientist (and Manhattan
Project collaborator) Richard Feynman, take notions such as
gravity and explain how they work and the broad implications
they have in understanding the ways of the universe.Tapping his
colleagues in Redmond to create interactive software to
accompany the videos, Gates is making the collection
available free
from the Microsoft Research Web site. Gates said that he
hoped his action would serve as a model for taking great
educational content and making it broadly available for
free.
