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Barak Kol. Douglas Stanford. Leonard Susskind ( / ˈsʌskɪnd /; born June 16, 1940) [ 2][ 3] is an American theoretical physicist, Professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research interests are string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical ...
TED Conferences, LLC ( Technology, Entertainment, Design[ 7]) is an American-Canadian non-profit [ 7] media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". [ 8] It was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in February 1984 [ 2] as a technology conference, in which ...
MNIF Public Lecture Series at Montana Neuroscience Institute Foundation. Neuroscience Lecture Series at University of Wisconsin–Madison. NRC Lecture Series at Neuroscience Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. NUIN Lecture Series at the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience.
The Last Lecture is a 2008 New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch —a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—and Jeffrey Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal. [ 1] The book extends the September 2007 lecture by Pausch entitled "Really ...
The Boyer Lectures began in 1959 as the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission, now the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Lectures. They were modelled on the BBC's Reith Lectures, [2] and renamed in 1961 after Richard Boyer (later Sir Richard), the ABC board chairman who had first suggested the lectures. The series is broadcast every year ...
The Sabhal Mòr Lectures are a series of annual televised lectures held at the college Sabhal Mòr Ostaig on Skye, Scotland. The lectures are held in English, but focus on topics related to the Scottish Gaelic language, often with emphasis on related economic or cultural issues. The invited lecturers are sometimes very prominent personalities ...
Dwight H. Terry Lectureship. The Dwight H. Terry Lectureship, also known as the Terry Lectures, was established at Yale University in 1905 [1] by a gift from Dwight H. Terry of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Its purpose is to engage both scholars and the public in a consideration of religion from a humanitarian point of view, in the light of modern ...
The Messenger Lectures are a series of talks given by scholars and public figures at Cornell University.They were funded in 1924 by a gift from Hiram Messenger of "a fund to provide a course of lectures on the Evolution of Civilization for the special purpose of raising the moral standard of our political, business, and social life", to be "delivered by the ablest non-resident lecturer or ...