Pausch, Randy

Pausch, Randy
▪ 2009
Randolph Frederick Pausch 
      American computer scientist and personality

born Oct. 23, 1960, Baltimore, Md.

died July 25, 2008, Chesapeake, Va.
delivered (in September 2007) at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, his celebrated “Last Lecture” on time management, an inspirational and uplifting testimonial; the speech became an international hit on the Internet and was the subject in 2008 of a best-selling nonfiction book (The Last Lecture, with Jeffrey Zaslow). Pausch, who in September 2006 was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, discovered shortly before giving the lecture that he had only a few more months to live, and he prepared the speech titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” as a type of time capsule for his three young children. He became an overnight celebrity with his effervescent personality, appearing on numerous television shows with his witty repartee and lobbying the U.S. Congress for funds aimed at pancreatic cancer research. Pausch, who earned a Ph.D. (1988) from Carnegie Mellon, returned to his alma mater in 2000 as a professor of computer science. He cofounded the university's Entertainment Technology Center and was cocreator of Alice, an open-source animation-based storytelling program for students that was released in 2005. In May 2008 he was named to Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

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