Randy Pausch is a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who has created innovative software systems, interactive virtual worlds and designed theme park rides for Disney, is dying of pancreatic cancer. As part of a series of lectures that professors would give if they knew it would be their last, he gives his last lecture. I saw snippets of it here in a WSJ video report of the lecture. It was pretty brilliant. Here is the lecture in it’s entirety — 1 hour 44 minutes:

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