Mehran Sahami Inspirational Speech

Mehram Sahami's (Stanford CS Lecturer, Googler) end-of-quarter closing speech during the last lecture. The inspirational part starts around the 1:30 mark. It's kind of like the CS version of Robin Williams in Dead Poet's Society but not quite as theatrical. Hopefully this is covered under fair use.

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• cs
• professor
• algorithms
• discrete
• math
• lecture
• google
• inspiration
• stanford
• computer
• science

[dima9917]

I wish i had a teacher like that.

[XpressDTruth]

I wish all professors were like him. I can tell he's very passionate about his work and the subject he lectures.

[Chulant]

You made my day thanks Mehran Sahami you have such a good sense of humor that's makes you so Spaicial thanks again

[Hotwail]

Useless ! Just a regular prof. rambling on. Nothing special about it. He is just waving his arms in the air as if he is trying to swim

[TheOkham]

love this guy!

[vampirepacman]

I'm a math professor, and I once received a negative student eval with the comment ``He thinks math is the most important subject in the world." I took it as a compliment.

[Excelsoft]

Stanford still use chalks..

[TheAirJona]

@TaimurAce The father of Computer Science is Donald Knuth. As Wikipedia states "Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms. "

[TaimurAce]

Whats the name of Professor to whom Mehram referred as 'Father of computer science' . I have played that part a dozen times where he spoke the name and i couldn't get it. I am dying of curiosity , plz anyone tell me the name , Thanks.

[knutaf0]

That's a disappointing smattering of applause after such a rad speech.

[warnexus]

great prof wish i was at stanford