Through the CMU grapevine, I heard that Randy Pausch, one of the professors there, has only several months left to live due to pancreatic cancer. Randy is married with three young children and I believe we both attended the same church when I lived in Pittsburgh. His final lecture on Achieving Your Childhood Dreams will be this Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at 4:30 pm (EDT) at CMU. It will also be webcast live at that time.
I wish the Pausch family comfort and strength.
Thanks, Dan, for sharing this. Looking at the site you linked to, there’s obviously been lots of info for a long time; it’s just far enough outside my circle that I don’t think I would have seen that.
I’ve always known of Randy since my earliest CHI days, he’s a bit of a legend and when I finally got to see him talk at U of Toronto back in the day (1991? It was about VR on $10-a-day or whatever), he was quite engaging and charming. I think I went up to him and said something useless, as only an excited graduate student could.
This is sad to read but your post title is right on.
I dunno if you saw this
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35328