Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams...

Who is professor Randy Pausch? Randy Pausch is a professor of Computer Science, Human Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University. From 1988 to 1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He is an award-winning teacher and researcher, and has worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the non-profit Alice project. (Alice is an innovative 3-D environment that teaches programming to young people via storytelling and interactive game-playing.) He also co-founded The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon with Don Marinelli. (ETC is the premier professional graduate program for interactive entertainment as it is applies across a variety of fields.) He lives in Virginia with his wife and three children.
Randy’s lecture has become a phenomenon, celebrating the dreams we all strive to make realities. And now, in his book based on the now-famous lecture, Randy goes even deeper to inspire us all.
Randy died on morning of July 25, 2008 as a result of complications from pancreatic cancer.
Learn more about The Last Lecture, Randy's new book co-written by alumnus Jeffrey Zaslow or watch Randy's lecture on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
*Reprinted with permission by http://www.thelastlecture.com
*See also http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
<< Home