Randy Pausch

robioto

Died today of Pancreatic Cancer he was 47.

Pausch received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He was a co-founder, 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 was a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. Pausch was a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia's School of Engineering and Applied Science from 1988 until 1997. He completed sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA) and consulted with Google on user interface design. Pausch was the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles and the founder of the Alice software project.

This guy was an amazing person, he's got quite a few great lectures but one of the best is on time management you can find that lecture and others on his website listed below.

http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/

(my apologies if this has been posted somewhere I did a search and didn't find anything)

BrodyB

As I worked today, I rewatched his "Last Lecture" and decided to go pick up his book, The Last Lecture. We lost a great man.

aesir

yea, I saw his lecture a while back when he first made it. Its really an amazing piece of work and I'd suggest you guys watch it.

_Gr9yFox_

I saw his lecture a few months ago and it was really inspiring. I still have the file for the next time I need a morale boost. What this guy achieved was amazing and it's really cool he even went beyond what the doctors told him and lived a few more months.

R.I.P. Randy Pausch

digitaldavinci

I just watched every video on his web site. The best 3 1/2 hours I've spent on a Saturday morning. I only wish I would of know about this man earlier. He is insightful, inspiring, and a fantastic educator. He will be sorely missed

cman2k

A great man. I met him in person while attending school in Pittsburgh a few years ago, before he was diagnosed. Even then he was an inspirational man. He certainly had an impact on me and my view on life and my career. I'm sad to see him go.

fattkid

Thanks for for sharing. I've never heard of this guy before, but I'm finding his lectures and what not really educational and inspiring. This guy seems like a truly great person.

doc rob

Shame, he left UVA a year before I would have had the chance to take courses from him (I was only a sophmore when he left). It's also strange that he ended up at Carnegie Mellon - the school that was top of my list (but too dang expensive). Those were some very nice talks and he had a lot of similar interests. . . I would have like to learn from him.

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doc_rob wrote: »

Shame, he left UVA a year before I would have had the chance to take courses from him (I was only a sophmore when he left). It's also strange that he ended up at Carnegie Mellon - the school that was top of my list (but too dang expensive). Those were some very nice talks and he had a lot of similar interests. . . I would have like to learn from him.

I can only imagine he'd say his "Last Lecture" was the most important thing we could learn from him.