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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
Known for
- Star Trek — Kelvin Crew Member2009
- Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams — Carnegie Mellon University Professor2006
via TMDB
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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Randy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Baltimore
- Place of death
- Chesapeake
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Virginia
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Unitarian Universalism
- Award
- ACM Fellow
- Notable work
- The Last Lecture
- Field of work
- informatics
- Official website
- download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch
- Image
- RandyPausch Wiki 2.jpg
Show 6 more facts
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- date of birth
- 1960-10-23
- date of death
- 2008-07-25
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Commons category
- Randy Pausch
via Wikidata · CC0
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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.