Randy Pausch - last lecture
Posted by: isiria, in A BETTER WORLD, IT general, creativity, reflectionsThe (main) clip below is remarkable in many ways (apart from being long). It shows a person who is facing death in probably a few months time, giving his last university lecture in a in a lively, upbeat, humourous and wise-cracking, while exemplifying a deep sense of humanity, a passion for learning and helping others to learn and looking back at a visionary life whose contributions to entertainment technology will live on as a foundational legacy. This video is a moving and at times very emotional contribution to life - as a fountain of opportunities and a providore for brick walls that often need to and at the same time can be overcome, on the roads to making dreams a reality. Despite the length of the clip and some of the references to American culture, it is more than worth watching it for its passion, wisdom and touching portrayal of a remarkable human being. (The first clip is an appetiser, a brief Wall Street Journal summary of the lecture).
Pausch received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Brown University and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. He has been a co-founder of CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC), a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator, and a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. He has done sabbaticals at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts (EA), and consulted with Google on user interface design. Pausch is the author or co-author of five books and over 70 articles, and the founder of the Alice software project.
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