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Comment Re:Great Professor (Score 4, Interesting) 93

by viega on Friday September 21, 2007 @01:41PM (#20699077) Attached to: CMU Professor Randy Pausch's 'Last Lecture'

Ah, yes, who could forget Randy taking out his frustrations with a VCR by smashing it with a sledge hammer on the first day of class? I definitely credit Randy and that class for getting me to prioritize the end users above almost everybody else.

Submission + - Dying Professor Gives His Last Lesson on Life (wsj.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 21, 2007 @09:32AM

An anonymous reader writes: Randy Pausch set the tone early on Tuesday at his farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University. "If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you," said Dr. Pausch, a 46-year-old computer science professor who has incurable pancreatic cancer. WSJ article full lecture is hosted here-> mms://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/pausch.wmv

Submission + - Dying CMU Prof Pausch Gives Final, Moving Lecture

Submitted by

IronicCheese

on Friday September 21, 2007 @01:10AM

IronicCheese writes: "Randy Pausch, prominent professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, co-founder of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center, creator of the Alice 3D Graphics system and teacher of CMU's famous "Building Virtual Worlds" class, gave his final lecture to a packed and overflowing auditorium this week. Dr. Pausch, age 47, father to three young children, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and has been given 3-6 months of healthy life left. The focus of his talk was on how to achieve your childhood dreams an in overcoming adversity. In spite of the cruelly sad circumstances, the tone of the lecture is breathtakingly upbeat and optimistic and left the audience wiping tears from their eyes and on their feet in deafening applause for several minutes.
The talk was covered by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and by the Wall Street Journal. The full video can be found here."

Submission + - Randy Pausch's last lecture (cmu.edu)

Submitted by

Jeff

on Friday September 21, 2007 @12:34AM

Jeff writes: "Randy Pausch, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center, and the force behind Alice (a 3D authoring tool), was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year. Despite a valiant fight, his treatment was unsuccessful and his doctors told him last month that he has approximately 3-6 months of good health left. On Tuesday, September 18th, Randy gave his last lecture, "Achieving your Childhood Dreams", for CMU's "Journeys" University Lecture series. Before a live crowd of over 400 faculty, friends, and students, Randy talked about how he'd accomplished his dreams and suggested how others, particularly his three young children (the real targets of the videotaped talk), might achieve their own dreams. Both the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Wall Street Journal covered the talk, and you can watch the video online (the official version of the talk is Windows Media format, but you can also find the talk in sections on YouTube in multiple parts."

Submission + - If you had one last lecture to give...

Submitted by Jason Smith on Thursday September 20, 2007 @10:59PM

Jason Smith writes: Randy Pausch, a VR researcher at CMU known best for co-founding the Entertainment Technology Center, and being the creator of the Alice programming environment, did. He's been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, and has just a few months to live. This is his last lecture: "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". I watched the webcast live on Tuesday, and... I couldn't look away. http://www.etc.cmu.edu/global_news/?q=node/42 It's almost two hours, all told, but worth every second spent. (I just noticed that it is, ironically, number 42. How appropriate.)

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