Open course ware

great welcome back everybody um this is a part of a pro of the program that I have really been looking forward to uh quite a bit as we've been planning this uh I think it's a really wonderful wonderful opportunity for all of us uh to hear from people who were involved uh in mit's decision to undertake its open courseware project 10 years ago which was a I think a very different uh world than uh the world living in today um as we heard from Tim O'Reilly as we heard from Susan hawkfield there were many influences many other movements uh toward openness on the internet and so uh this doesn't stand on obviously um even within education there were there were other prominent projects that were being launched uh webcast Berkeley was starting up and connections was starting up uh Wikipedia even could be considered an uh open education Resource as well and I and certainly was getting started about that time um but mit's announcement on April 4 2001 is proba...

GUEST SPEAKER: It's a great pleasure to present-- thank you. Thank you, Steve-- at this conference, and it's a great gathering. And I thank Steve and John, because I feel the fire again. The Auto-ID center went through a period of similar ignition, and it was fascinating. It is like a Petri dish with things, new life forms were being born. And then we moved into the execution phase and EPCglobal of whom the many representatives here started executing. And meanwhile, the Auto-ID Lab refocused their attentions on new research, and we have a family of Auto-ID Lab members, professors, students, colleagues here, who have recreated this entire environment and Elgar Fleisch and John [? Marai ?] and John Williams and Peter Cole, of course, who's been involved with us for a long time, Dan Engels. It's fantastic to see this all come together again, Hal. So it's a great pleasure. It's almost like-- I keep saying this every time I go to a Auto-ID-- it's li...