Randy
Pausch
Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science, human-computer
interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in
Pennsylvania. He initially taught at the University of Virginia -
while there, he completed sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering
and Electronic Arts. He was also the co-founder of Carnegie
Mellon's Entertainment Technology
Center, and the creator of the Alice software project.
He was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. He delivered his
"Last Lecture", titled Really Achieving Your Childhood
Dreams, to students at CMU on
September 18, 2007. This speech was so popular that he was featured
on Oprah and delivered a shorter, abridged version on this lecture
on the show in October later that year. This eventually led to a
New York Times best-selling book, The Last Lecture. Randy
passed away on July 25, 2008.
I find this Last Lecture to be extremely inspiring, and has many
great points on achieving your personal and career goals. He's very
clever, a great storyteller, and a genuine person.
The
Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood
Dreams
Here's the original full version, given to
students at Carnegie Mellon:
Here's the shorter, abridged version as given
on the Oprah show:
"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
Time Management
Here is a lecture Randy gave on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007, a more pragmatic lecture with concrete goals and tasks.
Reference:
Image: Randy Pausch, Wikipedia
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