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Randy Pausch
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American professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1960
- Died
- 2008
- Works
- 29
Top works
- The Last Lecture
- The Last Lecture (Korean Edition)
- The Last Lecture
- A Lição Final - The Last Lecture
- Time Management
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- Star Trek — Kelvin Crew Member2009
- Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams — Carnegie Mellon University Professor2006
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1960
- Active to
- 2008
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1,379
- Total plays
- 7,167
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Randy+Pausch">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- <i>PHENIX</i>: a comprehensive Python-based system for macromolecular structure solution
· 2010 · cited 23,556x
- The Satisfaction With Life Scale
· 1985 · cited 23,414x
- <i>Phaser</i>crystallographic software
· 2007 · cited 20,191x
- An automated labeling system for subdividing the human cerebral cortex on MRI scans into gyral based regions of interest
· 2006 · cited 13,000x
- Overview of the<i>CCP</i>4 suite and current developments
· 2011 · cited 11,948x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, I'm sorry to disappoint you.”
- “We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.”
- “So what is today's talk about then? It's about my childhood dreams and how I've achieved them — I've been very fortunate that way; how I believe I've been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessons learned: I'm a professor — there should be some lessons learned — and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.”
- “When you're eight or nine years old and you look at the TV set men are landing on the moon — anything is possible. And that is something we need to not lose sight of, is that the inspiration and permission to dream is immense. … It's important to have specific dreams.”
- “Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcomed.”
- “You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Randolph Frederick Pausch , ( 1960-10-23 ) October 23, 1960, Baltimore , Maryland , US
- Died
- July 25, 2008 (2008-07-25) (aged 47), Chesapeake, Virginia , US
- Cause of death
- Pancreatic cancer
- Alma mater
- Brown University (BS) , Carnegie Mellon University (PhD)
- Known for
- Creator of Alice software project, Cofounder of the Entertainment Technology Center , Virtual reality , The Last Lecture
- Spouse
- Jai Glasgow
- Awards
- Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education , Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computer Science Education, Fellow of the ACM , Time ' s Time 100
- Fields
- Computer science , Human–computer interaction
- Institutions
- Carnegie Mellon University , University of Virginia
- Doctoral advisor
- Alfred Spector
- Doctoral students
- Ken Hinckley , Caitlin Kelleher, Desney Tan
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Randy Pausch's Home Page
download.srv.cs.cmu.edu →Link to the official site · 4,941 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
Randolph Frederick Pausch (/paʊʃ/) (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American educator, a professor of computer science, human–computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pausch learned he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006. In August 2007, he was given a terminal diagnosis: "three to six months of good health left". He gave an upbeat lecture titled, "The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon, which became a popular YouTube video and led to other media appearances. He co-authored a book of the same name, The Last Lecture, which became a New York Times best-seller.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Randy Pausch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.