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"A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." While they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his la...

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Main Author: Pausch, Randy
Other Authors: Zaslow, Jeffrey, Singer, Erik
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : Hyperion Audiobooks, p2008.
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Pausch, Randy > Death and burial.
Pausch, Randy > Philosophy.
Computer scientists > Biography.
Cancer > Patients > Biography.
Death > Psychological aspects.
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Summary:"A lot of professors give talks titled "The Last Lecture." While they speak, audiences can't help but mull the same question: What would we want as our legacy? When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didn't have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave--"Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams"--wasn't about dying. It was about overcoming obstacles, enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment. It was about living"--Container.
Item Description:Unabridged.
"Includes personal photographs from the author's collection"--Container.
Disc 1 is enhanced. may be used to view and print photographs.
Compact discs.
Physical Description:4 sound discs (4 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:9781401391447
1401391443
Author Notes:Computer science professor, Randy Pausch, was born on October 23, 1960. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Brown University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1988. He was a member of the computer science faculty at the University of Virginia from 1988 to 1997 and spent a 1995 sabbatical working at Walt Disney Imagineering's Virtual Reality Studio before joining the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University.

He was the co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center and created the innovative educational software tool known as Alice that enables novices to create 3-D computer animations using a drag-and-drop interface. In September 2007, he gave a lecture entitled Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams, which was videotaped, found success on the Internet, and lead to a best-selling book entitled The Last Lecture. He died due to complications from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008.

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