Sun 24 Feb 2008
If you were an educator and you knew you had but a few months left to live, what would you give for your last lecture?
Randy Pausch, Professor at Carnegie Mellon with appointments in the CS, HCI and Design departments, is in just that position. Randy has Pancreatic Cancer which has an incredible mortality rate. He is an accomplished professor who has authored or co-authored five books and over 60 reviewed journal and conference proceeding articles. Randy is married with three small children and though he says the lecture is intended for their benefit, I think you’ll find it inspiring as well.
Download the last lecture transcript here
Youtube blocked? try this Randy Pausch blip.tv link
February 25th, 2008 at 10:16 am
I heard about this dude a few months back. It is very inspiring. He was told that he had only 3 months to live when he did the lecture, he is still up and going. You can read his blog here:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html