While most may may know Randy Pausch for his extremely popular YouTube lecture, the Carnegie Mellon professor was a household name to many television viewers as well. Since delivering his September ...

It was not really complicated. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, stood up last Sept. 18 and gave a talk to about 400 students, faculty and friends ...

PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They "give us a chance to show how badly we want something." Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an ...

PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47.

“The Last Lecture,” by Randy Pausch, is a very powerful message that can be used by everyone in life. Whether you are terminally ill or healthy, Randy’s “Last Lecture,” gives advice on every aspect of ...

ABC is apparently going to show the Last Lecture on April 9th [LINK]. Earlier last year, there was a thread here on Ars about his lecture. His link:<BR><BR>http ...

My colleague Ben Dean and I recently conducted an Internet survey of 1464 adults interested in positive psychology that asked what they would most like to know about this new field. A large number ...

Randy Pausch is dying. But in the process, he's teaching millions of people about living. Some colleges have adopted the idea of a "last lecture" to teach students life lessons that aren't necessarily ...

The book goes beyond the lecture, giving Pausch more room to tell his kids what he would have tried to teach them over the next 20 years. He counsels them to have fun, tell the truth, dare to take ...