Randy Pausch - In Memoriam

Randy Pausch, a former Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday, July 25. He was 47.

Our Technical services Manager drew my attention to this MSNBC article on Randy Pausch and how his "last lecture" came to be: it was originally a speech last fall, part of a lecture series Carnegie Mellon called "The Last Lecture," where professors were asked to think about what matters to them most and give a hypothetical final talk. Pausch was actually diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in September 2006. His lecture celebrated living the life he had always dreamed of instead of concentrating on impending death, and was viewed by millions on the Internet.

Harford County Public Library has copies of the book, the large print book, the audio book and the downloadable audio book. Find this book in our catalog