On Dear Dr. Pausch
Randy Pausch died this morning.
If you don't know who he is: for shame. He taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon and was deeply involved with virtual reality and entertainment software design. He created the Alice project among many other things.
Last September he gave a lecture as part of a series that Carnegie Mellon was doing on a simple subject: if you were to give one final lecture, what would you try to impart on your audience? Pausch essentially was giving his last lecture, though. He was dying.
Pausch had been diagnosed with a resurgence of terminal inoperable pancreatic cancer. In August 2007 he was given three to six months to live. He made it nearly a year, though his health was in slow decline. He had been off of chemotherapy since June 29th, and yesterday an update was made to his website by a friend stating that he had been moved into hospice care.
His lecture was absolutely inspirational and funny. He spent exactly no time wallowing in pity. To see what I mean, go here and watch.
Goodbye, Randy. You will be missed.
If you don't know who he is: for shame. He taught computer science at Carnegie Mellon and was deeply involved with virtual reality and entertainment software design. He created the Alice project among many other things.
Last September he gave a lecture as part of a series that Carnegie Mellon was doing on a simple subject: if you were to give one final lecture, what would you try to impart on your audience? Pausch essentially was giving his last lecture, though. He was dying.
Pausch had been diagnosed with a resurgence of terminal inoperable pancreatic cancer. In August 2007 he was given three to six months to live. He made it nearly a year, though his health was in slow decline. He had been off of chemotherapy since June 29th, and yesterday an update was made to his website by a friend stating that he had been moved into hospice care.
His lecture was absolutely inspirational and funny. He spent exactly no time wallowing in pity. To see what I mean, go here and watch.
Goodbye, Randy. You will be missed.