Rice has been supporting democratized higher education for a long time, for instance with the Connexions project (http://cnx.org). They also have a history of getting interesting speakers, such as John Doerr (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zi-ThMfM4I). Not so surprising that they picked up Salman Khan this year.

I got to see Kurt Vonnegut speak at Rice in '98. That would be hard to top. http://www.vonnegutweb.com/vonnegutia/commencement/rice.html if you care to read it.

Btw, John Doerr was a Rice grad himself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doerr

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Ouch... 137 upvotes for Sal speaking at MIT and only 15 points for the same speech at Rice?

Come on Rice hackers, where are you?

The 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.

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