I finally listened to Randy Pausch’s last lecture linked from Stephen Walli’s blog. It was so good I clapped at the end of the lecture alone in my office. Randy passed away last week from pancreatic cancer and this is his last speech. Randy was a brilliant man who was a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University. That description doesn’t begin to do his life justice. So what the video.
John has a list of Pausch quotes from the lecture but they are so much better in context. I encourage everyone to watch the lecture. I only hope I can go out so gracefully.
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Now you need to read the book. It fills in a few more details about the logistics of the lecture and it has some “gems” that were not in the video. The guy was remarkable. I was touched by him last year when I started using Alice to teach my kids how to program. Randy Pausch and Alice
IMHO, his leagacy will really start to blossom next year when Alice 3.0 (EA’s SIM’s integratrion) kicks in.
John
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