Even the most dedicated readers retain only grains of the thought that slurries through their brains, and I suspect that for the public lecture, memory approaches the vanishing point. I have attended ...

In this inspiring memoir Randy Pausch, a Carnegie Mellon University professor of computer science, delivers his last lecture, a college tradition for esteemed retiring professors asked what they’d ...

PITTSBURGH — Randy Pausch said obstacles — the “brick walls” in life — serve a purpose: They “give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” Confronted with incurable pancreatic cancer, he ...

Carnegie Mellon Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch's book, "The Last Lecture", was released last week, just over six months from when he gave his heavily YouTube viewed lecture by the same name.

Randy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer-science professor with terminal cancer whose "Last Lecture" became a YouTube sensation in late 2007, died early Friday morning. Pausch died at his home in ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They “give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an ...

When it comes to goofing off, there are few Web sites that offer the rich resources of YouTube. Since last fall millions of people have visited the site to watch "The Last Lecture," terminally ill ...

My colleague Ben Dean and I recently conducted an Internet survey of 1464 adults interested in positive psychology that asked what they would most like to know about this new field. A large number ...

You may be familar with the "Last Lecture." It has gotten a great deal of press due to the life and death of Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon (and classmate of mine at ...

To millions who have watched him on the Internet or on Oprah Winfrey's TV show, Randy Pausch is the 47-year-old professor dying of cancer who inspired them with his "last lecture," about achieving ...

Randy Pausch, the computer scientist whose “last lecture” about facing terminal cancer became an Internet sensation and a best-selling book, died Friday. He was 47. But Pausch’s message was mostly one ...