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:
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)