Randy Pausch is a Carnegie Mellon Professor of Computer Science. He is fighting Pancreatic Cancer and sadly his prognosis is not very good. Last Fall, he was asked to give a traditional Last Lecture for Carnegie Mellon. Usually, the Last Lecture is just a metaphor and an opportunity for a professor to pass on the lessons he's learned in life and his career. In this case , it really was his last lecture. It is one of the more inspirational things I've ever heard and I had many take aways that I will carry with me the rest of my life.
I encourage you to watch this video, plan to spend at least an hour to watch it. Randy lived an amazing life, and is fighting until the end actually speaking to congress about Pancreatic Cancer. In the computer science field he is one of the experts on Virtual Reality and also the creator of Alice.
