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Nothing & Everything => Open Discussion => Topic started by: kermi3 on September 22, 2007, 09:58:59 AM
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Great lecture from CMU CS Professor Randy Pausch. Who is dying of cancer (http://www.bspcn.com/2007/09/20/cmu-professor-gives-his-last-lesson-on-life/). He's done a lot of work on VR, gaming, and teaching kids CS. Absolutely inspireing. I just sat and watched the whole hour and 45 min. It's one of the best lectures I've ever heard...Google Video Link (http://video.google.com/url?docid=-5700431505846055184&esrc=sr1&ev=v&len=6248&q=dying%2B47%2Byear%2Bold%2Bprofessor&srcurl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.google.com%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-5700431505846055184&vidurl=%2Fvideoplay%3Fdocid%3D-5700431505846055184%26q%3Ddying%2B47%2Byear%2Bold%2Bprofessor%26total%3D7%26start%3D0%26num%3D10%26so%3D0%26type%3Dsearch%26plindex%3D0&usg=AL29H20T3vzpsmYNdczSqVGVptXjAcQ_PA)
Worth the time.
PS - Jen - did you get to have him?
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Good stuff. I truly enjoyed it. A LOT of supervision and management should apply these lessons.
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Awsome. What a cool guy
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In my entire stay here, I am not required to take one programming class. So, no. I'm sure some of my friends went to that lecture though.
Our university's lost a fair amount of pretty important professors in the past few months, but it's cool to see how much of an impact they have on education.
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He passed.
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.
University spokeswoman Anne Watzman says Pausch died early Friday at his home in Virginia.
Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007 garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the Internet.
In it, Pausch celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on impending death.
The book "The Last Lecture, " written with Jeffrey Zaslow, topped best-seller lists after its publication in April.
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Way to go assholes, you killed him.
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And his webpage it appears
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He passed.
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.
University spokeswoman Anne Watzman says Pausch died early Friday at his home in Virginia.
Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His popular last lecture at Carnegie Mellon in September 2007 garnered international attention and was viewed by millions on the Internet.
In it, Pausch celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on impending death.
The book "The Last Lecture, " written with Jeffrey Zaslow, topped best-seller lists after its publication in April.
47 :(