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Title: Randy Pausch passes away
Post by: krissel on July 27, 2008, 10:40:51 PM

Gunug posted about his now famous "Last Lecture" many months ago. His amazing and inspiring speech has received much of the attention that it deserved and I had hope he would be one of the few to beat his cancer.

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"In an era of ever-increasing specialization, Randy promoted interdisciplinary teams based upon mutual respect, building bridges between fine arts and computer science," said Dan Siewiorek, head of the Human- Computer Interaction Institute. "Randy's legacy is his technology that made computer science accessible to the non-specialists."

Truly a great loss.

http://www.cmu.edu/index.shtml

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/memo...}&dist=hppr

Download his lecture as pdf:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/Randy/pausch...etranscript.pdf

Watch it:

http://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/pausch.wmv

http://www.cmu.edu/uls/journeys/

Title: Randy Pausch passes away
Post by: gunug on July 27, 2008, 10:43:54 PM

Yep, his talk was very inspiring and I hope that the book he wrote that expanded on it made a load of money for his family to proceed on!

Title: Randy Pausch passes away
Post by: Gregg on July 28, 2008, 06:45:24 AM

A very sad, yet inspiring story. Ditto on the royalties.