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Article: Randy Pausch, The Professor Who Gave The Lecture Of a Lifetime
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- The Washington Post
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- July 26, 2008
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It was not really complicated.
Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh, stood up last Sept. 18 and gave a talk to
about 400 students, faculty and friends about some life lessons he'd
learned. He was 47, he was in the early stages of pancreatic cancer,
and he thought that an amiable presentation to his school -- with
the notion that his young children might value a videotape of the
speech later on -- might be a good idea.
He was right. Well, except for the part where he said that a
computer learning program named "Alice" would be his legacy. He was
wrong about that.
Pausch died yesterday at his home in Chesapeake, Va., the co-
author of the ...