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katoagogo
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Posted: Sun Mar 16th, 2008 03:41 pm |
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With equal parts humor and heart, Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch recently delivered a one-of-a-kind university lecture that moved an overflow crowd at Carnegie Mellon - and is now moving audiences around the globe.
Randy Pausch is a married father of three, a very popular professor at Carnegie Mellon University—and he is dying. He is suffering from pancreatic cancer, which he says has returned after surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. Doctors say he has only a few months to live.
In September 2007, Randy gave a final lecture to his students at Carnegie Mellon that has since been downloaded more than a million times on the Internet. "There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students?" Randy says. "Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical."
Check out the page on CMU's website with links to full lecture, DVD, or downloadable transcription:
http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
See the full lecture on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
or a 10 minute reprise from Oprah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
Take the time to view it.
Also, a story from ABC News about the Last Lecture:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
--kato
More resources from Prof. Pausch's homepage:
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
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katoagogo
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Posted: Thu Apr 10th, 2008 03:09 am |
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Here are some links to the ABC Primetime that aired tonight:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=4614281&page=1
http://abcnews.go.com/gma/lastlecture
Plus -- there's a book available -- I'm ordering one tonight.
This guy's lecture and outlook is inspiring.
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