Beloved Last Lecture author Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose class talk about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47. University spokeswoman Anne Watzman says Pausch died early this morning at his home in Virginia.
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That's sad and all, but are you messing with us JPX? I never heard of this guy.
Oh you silly new out-of-the-loop daddy. This guy was all over the news just a few weeks ago and his speech about the meaning of life was all over the internet. He was on shows like 20/20 and the like.
Shows like what now?
What are you talking about? Octo, don't feel bad: I've never heard of this either.
I'd never heard of him either. I glanced at the boring picture, saw the word "lecture" and just kept on scrolling.
it's actually a rather nice, heartfelt lecture. the guy discovered he had pancreatic cancer and was going to die within the year.
he was a computer science professor and his last lecture was about living the life you dreamed about when you were a kid.
the lecture became a huge youtube thing and he wound up delivering the lecture on Oprah.
it's not a very long lecture and it's quite touching. check it out.
if you need further evidence that this is something appropriate to post on the blog, perhaps you'll be comforted in knowing that he's got a part on the jj abrams star trek (which was offered to him by abrams, personally, after abrams saw the lecture) and he's got one line.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3115188410730134929
sorry, the actual original lecture is like an hour and a half, but the oprah version is short.
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&q=last%20lecture%20oprah&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
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