The Interactive video player used in this website is created using Microsoft Silverlight technology. The Quality and the download speed of the videos are really good.

Bill Gates has initially started this by acquiring rights for the Physics Lectures, by Professor Richard Feynman, which he has watched some 30 years back. Gates saw the lectures when he was younger, and he enjoyed learning about these concepts, and hoped to make them available to others.. He also hopes that this will help encourage others to make

Other educational content available for free.

The name of the project refers to Feynman’s lifelong obsession with the Mongolian region of Tuva (The Republic is situated in the far south of Siberia, with the capital city of Kyzyl

Being located at the geographic “center of Asia”)

The Features of Project Tuva

1. Interactive and Enhanced Media Player (developed using Microsoft SilverLight)

2. Full Content Search

3. Dynamic Note taking, this integrates with the video

4. Interactive extras like animation, images

5. Expert Commentary

Currently (as on 17-July-2009) there are 7 Physics lectures available. The topics are

1. The Law of Gravitation

2.  The Relation of Mathematics and Physics

3. The Great Conservation Principles

4. Symmetry in Physical Law

5. The Distinction of Past and Future

6. Probability Uncertainty

7. Seeking New laws

There will be more lectures on educational contents available soon.

Project Tuva link is a follows

Project Tuva