Randy Pausch was a Carnegie Mellon University professor who suffered from pancreatic cancer. He died yesterday (25th July).
He gave a famous lecture on what he would like to tell the generation of today if he was to give a last lecture (ironically- as he suffered from a terminal disease). This “Last Lecture” was a series of lectures by many notable people which also included Randy Pausch.
From wikipedia
Before speaking, Pausch received a long standing ovation from a large crowd of over 400 colleagues and students. When he motioned them to sit down, saying, “Make me earn it,” some in the audience shouted back, “You did!”
Here is the video of that speech.
“Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”
(The video is 76min long)
I think everyone should see it. It is really inspiring.
Google even honored him on their homepage by adding the line “In Memoriam: Randy Pausch (1960-2008)” at the bottom.
Now that is a great honor.
Prof. Randy was even came for the graduation ceremony for the CMU class of ’08 and gave another great speech.
I have a screen grab of the google homepage on my blog if its gone from the actual site : http://additionalnoise.com/2008/07/homage/