Archive for July, 2008

“Last Lecture”, Randy Pausch Passes Away at 47

Friday, July 25th, 2008

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist whose "last lecture" about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, has died. He was 47. University spokeswoman Anne Watzman says Pausch died early Friday at his home in Virginia. Pausch was diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer ...