Prof Randy Pausch

[Hawkwind]

Been reading about Prof Randy Pausch this morning. Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Vast amount of work he did over the years there on creating virtual worlds and introducing kids to computers, 'project alice'. He was diagnosed with terminal pancriatic cancer and with only a few months to live gave his last lecture series entitled, 'How to live your childhood dreams'. Its quite a read and there is also a video of the lecture on google:

http://http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5700431505846055184

or download the lecture here:

Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Links for various formats are on the right side for download.

Transcript is here on PDF:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/Randy/pauschlastlecturetranscript.pdf

 

[aika]

saw that on the news some time ago, quite sad, reminded me of the Iron Maiden song : "Only the good die young"