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Randy Pausch
Randolph Frederick Pausch[2] (October 23,1960 – July 25,2008) was an American professor of computer science,human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania.Pausch received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University in 1982 and his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon in August 1988.Pausch later became an associate professor at the University of Virginia,before working at Carnegie Mellon as an associate professor.
He gave his "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18,2007 at Carnegie Mellon.Pausch conceived the lecture after he learned that his previously known pancreatic cancer was terminal.[3] The talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them,and then give a hypothetical "final talk",with a topic such as "what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?" The talk was later released as a book called The Last Lecture,which became a New York Times best-seller.
Career
Pausch was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1988 until 1997.While there,he completed sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA).In 1997,Pausch became Associate Professor of Computer Science,Human-Computer Interaction,and Design,at Carnegie Mellon University.He was a co-founder in 1998,along with Don Marinelli,of CMU's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC),and he started the Building Virtual Worlds[6] course at CMU and taught it for 10 years.He consulted with Google on user interface design and also consulted with PARC,Imagineering,and Media Metrix.[5] Pausch is also the founder of the Alice software project.[7]
He was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow.[8] Pausch was the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles.He also received two awards from ACM in 2007 for his achievements in computing education:the Karl V.Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education.[9] He was also inducted as a Fellow of the ACM in 2007.The Pittsburgh City Council declared November 19,2007 to be "Dr.Randy Pausch Day".[10] In May 2008,Pausch was listed by Time as one of the World's Top-100 Most Influential People.
The Last Lecture
The Disney-owned publisher Hyperion paid $6.7 million for the rights to publish a book about Pausch called The Last Lecture,co-authored by Pausch and Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Zaslow.[24] The book became a New York Times best-seller on June 22,2008.[25] The Last Lecture expands on Pausch's speech.The book's first printing had 400,000 copies,and it has been translated into 17 languages.Despite speculation that the book would be made into a movie,Pausch had denied these rumors,stating that "there's a reason to do the book,but if it's telling the story of the lecture in the medium of film,we already have that