“Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”
This video is a short hour and 15 minutes long. It is Randy Pausch giving a “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon.
He was a Computer Science professor and a pioneer in the field virtual reality, but that’s not why Tech-for Everyone readers might appreciate it.
This “lecture” has been seen by over a million people and is rated 5 Stars by viewers; and was turned into a book.
Watching it might change your life.
He was 47.
Mr. Pausch was the founder of the Alice project; a free program that teaches kids how to program a computer, and they don’t even know they’re learning programming.. they think they’re writing a story.
Amazing. You can check it out at http://www.alice.org/
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[…] unknown wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptThis video is a short hour and 15 minutes long. It is Randy Pausch giving a “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon. He was a Computer Science professor and a pioneer in the field virtual reality, but that’s not why Tech-for Everyone readers might appreciate it. This “lecture” has been seen by over a million people and is rated 5 Stars by viewers; and was turned into a book. Watching it might change your life. […]
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Fantastic video of an inspirational man. Everyone should watch this or read the book. Mr.Pausch was great. Thank you for this lecture. What a nice gift to everyone.
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I agree.
Send the link to your friends and family. (Though, they may have seen it. This video has been seen by a LOT of people! But, it’s worth watching again, wouldn’t you say?)
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