{"id":886,"date":"2008-04-17T07:39:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T06:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=886"},"modified":"2008-04-17T07:39:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T06:39:29","slug":"randy-pauschs-last-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=886","title":{"rendered":"Randy Pausch&#8217;s last lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. In September 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He pursued a very aggressive cancer treatment that included major surgery and experimental chemotherapy; however, in August 2007, he was told the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen and given months to live.<br \/>\nPausch delivered his &#8216;Last Lecture&#8217;, entitled &#8220;Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,&#8221; at CMU on 18 September 2007. This talk was modelled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to them and then give a hypothetical &#8220;final talk&#8221; i.e., &#8220;what wisdom would you try to impart to the world if you knew it was your last chance?&#8221; It has had a great deal of publicity and impact in the USA.<br \/>\nYou can see a video of the 10 minute lecture <a href=\"http:\/\/onpointcoach.multiply.com\/video\/item\/5\/Dr_Randy_Pausch_Last_Lecture_-_from_Oprah\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nActually Pausch is still alive and still fighting his cancer and you can read his up-dates <a href=\"http:\/\/download.srv.cs.cmu.edu\/~pausch\/news\/index.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Pausch is a Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. In September 2006, Pausch was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He pursued a very aggressive cancer treatment that included major surgery and experimental chemotherapy; however, in August 2007, he was told the cancer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}