Randy Pausch's last lecture

Randy Pausch is a virtual reality pioneer, a former professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and the founder of the Alice project, one of the most interesting educational computing projects out there. He has consulted for Disney and for Google on human-computer interface design.

Randy has received two awards from the ACM for his work in computing education.

Although I knew the Alice project, I didn’t know much about Randy Pausch until I saw the link at Kimniekan to a talk Pausch gave on the famous Oprah Winfrey show in the United States. The original lecture Randy gave in September 2007 at CMU is longer, but the message is the same.

Here is the condensed talk, 10 minutes long, which I hope you can take the time to enjoy.