Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management

Randy Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer in September 2006, and in August 2007 he was given a terminal diagnosis: "3 to 6 months of good health left". He died of complications from pancreatic cancer on July 25, 2008.This talk is truly inspirational and it is fun.

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch gave a lecture on Time Management at the University of Virginia in November 2007. Randy Pausch --http://www.randypausch.com -- was a virtual reality pioneer, human-computer interaction researcher, co-founder of Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center -- http://www.etc.cmu.edu -- and creator of the Alice --http://www.alice.org -- software project. The slides for this lecture and high-res downloadable versions of this and other lectures can be found at:http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/.

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