Randy Pausch

Who is Randy Pausch?

Randolph Frederic Pausch was a computer scientist who worked as a professor at CMU in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He taught the course Building Virtual World for 10 years, from 1997 until 2007.

What was he known for?

He was know The founder of the Alice software project.
He has a book about his last lecture called "The Last Lecture."
He is the co-founder of the program "Entertainment Technology Centre."

5 Points that I liked in his talk:

How he made sure that he delivers how important time management is.
That he never forgot whoever helped him to reach the place he was in.
Reminding people that hard work will pay off at the end and will make things much easier.
Knowing that he was diagnosed with cancer, he still advised people to make the right choices and live their life.
I liked how his lecture "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" was linked to Burnett wanting to be in a Star Wars film and he ended up helping Burnett to make his dream come true by working on his virtual reality team at University of Virginia.