Randy Pausch
Computer science professor and author
Randy Pausch was an American computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who gave the talk behind The Last Lecture.
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American Born 1960 in Baltimore, United States Died 2008
About Randy Pausch
Randy Pausch (1960 to 2008) held a professorship at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, working in computer science, human-computer interaction and design. Before that, he taught at the University of Virginia from 1988 to 1997. He worked with companies including Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts and Walt Disney Imagineering. He pioneered the non-profit Alice project, a 3-D environment that teaches programming to young people, and he and Don Marinelli started the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon. In 2006 Pausch learned he had pancreatic cancer, and in August 2007 he was told it was terminal. On September 18, 2007, he gave an upbeat lecture at Carnegie Mellon titled "Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", which became a popular online video. He co-wrote The Last Lecture, a New York Times best-seller. He died on July 25, 2008, aged 47.