Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps because of the technical focus of yesterday's lecture, though, a steady trickle of students began heading for the door after Hawking dove into topics like path integrals in 11 dimensions, leaving the theatre only partially full by the end of his speech...
Hawking showed flashes of biting British humor throughout the speech, frequently breaking out into a wide grin after telling jokes...
Hawking communicates with the aid of a computer and speech synthesizer attached to his wheelchair, which requires that he select words one by one from a list on the computer. According to Hawking, this allows him to speak as fast as fifteen words a minute...
...addition to his computer-controlled intonation, the restraints of Hawking's speech system required a pause of several minutes after a student asked a question, so that Hawking could formulate a reply...
Tickets to the speech series were distributed free of charge on September 16 at the Harvard Box Office...