Inspiration

September 27, 2007 By

When I visited Carnegie Mellon I met Randy Pausch. He was inspirational then (developed a new programming language, Alice, which was aimed at helping kids learn to program). But now, he’s even more inspirational. You gotta watch this video (WMV format). It’s his last lecture. Has pancreatic cancer.

More about this talk and Randy over on Metafilter.

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  • http://weblogs.asp.net/ajuneja Ajay Juneja

    Robert, that’s not the whole video.

    the whole talk (1.5 hrs long) is here:

    http://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/pausch.wmv

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/ajuneja Ajay Juneja

    Robert, that’s not the whole video.

    the whole talk (1.5 hrs long) is here:

    http://wms.andrew.cmu.edu/001/pausch.wmv

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/ajuneja Ajay Juneja

    Randy’s lab was down the hallway from mine at CMU from 2000-2004 – I got a big stuffed Scooby Doo from his lab on my birthday in Dec. 2001. It’s still in mom’s house – I’ll be giving Scooby a big hug when I visit home!

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/ajuneja Ajay Juneja

    Randy’s lab was down the hallway from mine at CMU from 2000-2004 – I got a big stuffed Scooby Doo from his lab on my birthday in Dec. 2001. It’s still in mom’s house – I’ll be giving Scooby a big hug when I visit home!

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/ajuneja Ajay Juneja

    and for those that want to download the talk in its entirety, click here:

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/front_im/pausch_9-18-07.wmv

  • http://weblogs.asp.net/ajuneja Ajay Juneja

    and for those that want to download the talk in its entirety, click here:

    http://www.cs.cmu.edu/front_im/pausch_9-18-07.wmv

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Thanks Ajay! I updated the post to link to the whole thing.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Thanks Ajay! I updated the post to link to the whole thing.

  • http://www.yonga.info/ Yonga Sun

    Robert, thank you so very much for posting about this!
    I watched the whole lecture in on go. At first because I couldn’t pause it in VLC Player, later because it’s fascinating & inspiring.
    I will forward this to all my friends and share this valuable and utterly inspiring insight into Pausch’s life and wisdom.
    All the best from Holland,
    Yonga Sun

  • http://www.yonga.info Yonga Sun

    Robert, thank you so very much for posting about this!
    I watched the whole lecture in on go. At first because I couldn’t pause it in VLC Player, later because it’s fascinating & inspiring.
    I will forward this to all my friends and share this valuable and utterly inspiring insight into Pausch’s life and wisdom.
    All the best from Holland,
    Yonga Sun

  • http://www.daivddalka.com/createvalue/ David

    Really interesting story telling…thanks for sharing.

  • http://www.daivddalka.com/createvalue/ David

    Really interesting story telling…thanks for sharing.

  • http://www.bwlzweinull.de/ Matthias

    I am quite speechless about this. Thank you so much for sharing it!

  • http://www.bwlzweinull.de Matthias

    I am quite speechless about this. Thank you so much for sharing it!

  • Mike

    if only we all could be so lucky. great post! thank you for sharing! I hope people can see this and recognize just how lucky they have it and hopefully come away with a head fake or two….

  • Mike

    if only we all could be so lucky. great post! thank you for sharing! I hope people can see this and recognize just how lucky they have it and hopefully come away with a head fake or two….

  • vruz

    for those of us who can digest or support .wmv

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en

    (the full thing)

  • vruz

    for those of us who can digest or support .wmv

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=362421849901825950&hl=en

    (the full thing)

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