LibGuides: One Book One College: The Last Lecture: The Authors

"The Interdisciplinary Challenge of Entertainment Technology" by Randy Pausch

"Time Management" by Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch Inspires Graduates

TIME Interviews Dr. Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch's Testimony to the Labor, Health and Human Services

Building Virtual Worlds 2005

Carnegie Mellon's Educational Technology Center

Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center

Don Marinelli and Randy Pausch founded Carnegie Mellon's Enteretainment Technology Center, an interdisciplinary effort to bring together computer science and art to build virtual reality world experiences.

Biography

Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch

Born: October 23, 1960, Baltimore MD

Education:

Oakland Mills High School, Columbia, MD

Brown University, Providence, RI, Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, May 1982

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, Ph.D in Computer Science, August 1988

Family wife, Jai, and three children, Dylan, Logan, and Chloe

Career:

Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Completed sabbatical at Walt Disney Imagineering and Electronic Arts, 1988 – 1997

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Design, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997 – 2008

Co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, started the Building Virtual Worlds, teaching it for 10 years

Consulted with Google on user interface design, with PARC Imagineering, and Media Metrix

Founder of Alice software project

Writings:

The Last Lecture (wrote with Jeffrey Zaslow)

Adding Input and Output to the Transactional Model (Research paper, CMU)

Learning to Program with Alice (wrote with Wanda Dann & Stephen Cooper)

Time Management

Died: July 25, 2008

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Pausch (January 21, 2011)

Co-author Jeffrey Zaslow

A Beloved Professor Delivers the Lecture of a Lifetime
Jeffrey Zaslow, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal and co-author of the book attended and reported on The Last Lecture at Carnegie

Randy Rausch and co-author Jeffrey Zaslow