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Sal Khan is Rice's Commencement Speaker Too
- iag 15y agoOuch... 137 upvotes for Sal speaking at MIT and only 15 points for the same speech at Rice? Come on Rice hackers, where are you?
- ericlavigne 15y agoThe MIT article was submitted earlier. The Rice submission even emphasizes that by ending with "too". So by the time I scroll down far enough to see the Sal@Rice article I am thinking, yeah I already know he's giving a commencement address soon, and having him deliver it twice doesn't make it much more interesting. Basically, Sal@Rice could have been the top comment on the Sal@MIT article, instead of a separate submission. Edit: Sal@Rice currently represents comments 2, 4, and 5 on the Sal@MIT submission. Also, Sal was an undergraduate at MIT.
- jflatow 15y agoRice has been supporting democratized higher education for a long time, for instance with the Connexions project (http://cnx.org http://cnx.org). They also have a history of getting interesting speakers, such as John Doerr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zi-ThMfM4I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zi-ThMfM4I). Not so surprising that they picked up Salman Khan this year.
- goberoi 15y agoBtw, John Doerr was a Rice grad himself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr
- runamok 15y agoI got to see Kurt Vonnegut speak at Rice in '98. That would be hard to top. http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/commencement/rice.html http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/commencement/rice.html if you care to read it.
- kirtan 15y agowhat a boss.
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