Showing posts with label last lecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label last lecture. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Original 'last lecture'

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I know, I already have a post on Randy Pausch's talk on Oprah. This is the original 'last lecture' series at Carnegie Mellon, immortalized by Dr Pausch's brilliant speech. It's pretty long (1 hour 44 minutes, includes other speakers), but is certainly unmissable stuff: guaranteed to make your day shine through all your black clouds. In case you want to send this link to your loved ones, use the envelope icon below (on the line that starts with 'Posted by'). Spreading hope is, after all, no mean task.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Randy Pausch's last lecture

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Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. You might remember him as one of the developers of Alice, a free open-source object oriented educational programming language developed in Java. He's dying from metastatic pancreatic cancer; he has a few more months to live, and presented a 'last lecture' at Carnegie Melon a few months back. Prof Pausch's lecture was also aired on Oprah, which you can see here. It's astonishing. Take ten minutes off your life and see it. It might just make you think of your life differently. Update: you might also want to view the original version of this lecture. In case you want to send this link to your loved ones, use the envelope icon below (on the line that starts with 'Posted by'). Spreading hope is, after all, no mean task.