Its a small story about a great person !!!! I have read this story and wanted all my friends to know about this coz its worth a lot !!!!
Go thru the small brief introduction to his life and i have provided few links at the end, so that you can know about this better. At the end of the day, if you feel, the few minutes you spent on this was worth, i wil b the happiest person.
Randy Pausch was a computer science professor, at Carnegie Mellon University.
From 1988 to 1997, he taught at the University of Virginia. He was an award-winning teacher and researcher, and worked with Adobe, Google, Electronic Arts (EA), and Walt Disney Imagineering, and pioneered the non-profit Alice project. (Alice is an innovative 3-D environment that teaches programming to young people via storytelling and interactive game-playing.) He also co-founded The Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon with Don Marinelli. (ETC is the premier professional graduate program for interactive entertainment as it is applies across a variety of fields.)
He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and having only a few months to live.and underwent a Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) on September 19, 2006 in an unsuccessful attempt to halt his pancreatic cancer. He was told in August 2007 to expect a remaining three to six months of good health. He soon moved his family to Chesapeake, Virginia, a suburb near Norfolk, to be close to his wife's family.
He was asked to give his last lecture and On September 18, 2007 he delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention.
He never talked about his cancer, sadness, depression, religion, spirituality at his lecture. The topic on which he spoke was about “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”. It was about the importance of overcoming obstacles, of enabling the dreams of others, of seizing every moment (because “time is all you have...and you may find one day that you have less than you think”). It was a summation of everything Randy had come to believe. It was about living.
This lecture was full of life. Not even for a single minute he spoke like a dying man. He was full of energy. Through this lecture, he wanted his children(Dylan, 6 yrs, Logan, 3 yrs, and Chloe, 2 yrs) to know him better when they grow up. But this helped millions of people around the world to realize their dreams and achieve it.
Every word of his lecture is captured in the book "The Last Lecture", co-authored by Jeffrey Zaslow.
Recently , "The Last Lecture of Randy Pausch" is translated in Kannada by S. Umesh Mysore. Please spend a few bucks ( jus 100 rs ) on this book. Its really gonna be the asset for rest of ur life.
A great lecture which one shouldnot miss...Please check out the videos and the other related articles at....
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
http://www.cmu.edu/randyslecture/
http://www.thelastlecture.com/index.htm
http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/news/index.html
Thanks for spending your valuable time to read this and i hope it will help you to realize ur dreams too.
Good luck !!!!
