Randy Pausch The Last Lecture Very Powerful

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Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving presentation, "...


This is the short version:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/nwO7EnM0zWM&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/nwO7EnM0zWM&rel=1</a>

Full Lecture:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ji5_MqicxSo&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ji5_MqicxSo&rel=1</a>

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Just watched the full-length.

Very sobering (even in my rye induced state)   dont' bother with the 4 minute clip, find some time in your busy life and watch this video.

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Randy Pausch, the computer science professor who rose to fame after giving a quirky last lecture about celebrating life in the face of his terminal cancer, died Friday.

The 47-year-old died at his home in Chesapeake, Va., according to Wall Street Journal columnist Jeffrey Zaslow, who helped launch Pausch to fame after writing about the speech — which also garnered widespread attention when it was posted on video sharing site YouTube.

When Pausch was offered a deal to write a book expanding on his lecture, Zaslow co-authored the non-fiction title. The Last Lecture became a bestseller.

"It was the most fun 53 days of my life because it was like a performance," Zaslow said. "It was like getting 53 extra lectures."

I watched it a month ago...pretty cool.